AR-News: Stick to ivory ban

Sun Mar 7 23:34:50 EST 2004

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Onderwerp: Stick to ivory ban !

Kenya urges African countries to stick to ivory ban 

Friday, March 05, 2004 
By Reuters 

NAIROBI — Kenya urged African countries Thursday to 
stick by a 15-year global ban on the ivory trade, which it 
says has saved the elephant population across the continent 
from further decimation. The ivory trade was prohibited 
worldwide in 1989 after the African elephant population 
halved to 600,000 in just over a decade. 

“Even a limited reopening of the trade would signal to the 
consumer that it was, once again, acceptable to buy, sell, 
and wear ivory and would stimulate global demand and 
raise the prices,” said Kenyan Vice President Moody 
Awori. “Kenya believes that a premature relaxation of 
the current ban would indicate to the world that elephant 
populations had miraculously recovered,” Awori said at 
the opening ceremony of a consultative meeting on the 
ivory trade in Nairobi. 

The number of elephants in Kenya has steadily grown to 
28,000 since the ban was put in place from a low of 
16,000. But at the time of independence from Britain 
in 1963, the population stood at 167,000 elephants. 
Awori urged African countries to forge a common 
strategy to protect elephants, saying any conservation 
policy in one country would have a ripple effect on 
elephants in others. 

Wildlife monitors have accused the West African states 
of Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Senegal of turning a blind 
eye to illegal ivory sales that are fuelling poaching in 
nearby countries. Industry experts say China, South 
Korea, Japan, and other Asian countries had the biggest 
appetite for raw and carved ivory. 

Source: Reuters 
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