Ivory market declines
A WWE REPORT, The Effects of Trade Moratoria on International Commerce in African Elephant Ivory, has found that prices and demand for ivory are steady or falling in the EC, US, Middle East, Africa and most of Asia, with the exception of Japan. However Japan has adhered to the ban and last year confiscated 30,000 unfinished ivory name seals believed to have been loaded in Hong Kong. In the US the $100 million a year market has collapsed and in China (which exempted itself from the ban until January 1991) the largest ivory factory now employs only six Out of the 600 employees who worked there. Although some illegal killing of elephants continues in Africa, Kenya has announced that poaching is down by 90 percent from the first quarter of 1989. Source: WWF News
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Forest and Bird, Volume 22, Issue 1, 1 February 1991, Page 6
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137Ivory market declines Forest and Bird, Volume 22, Issue 1, 1 February 1991, Page 6
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