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Trump Administration Quietly Decides — Again — To Allow Elephant Trophy Imports
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The Trump administration has lifted a ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from certain African countries, just over three months after President Trump appeared to pause a first attempt to do so amid public uproar. In a memo dated March 1, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that in place of the Obama-era blanket ban, the agency will consider importation permits "on a case-by-case basis." Story by Colin Dwyer/NPR America
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China Bans Ivory: Why 2018 Is The Year Of The Elephant
Is this the beginning of the end of Elephant Ivory Poaching?
2018 should be a better year for the African elephant, ending a decade of merciless poaching for their ivory tusks. Ten years ago, legal trade in elephant ivory resumed in China and as the economy boomed, poaching climbed from a few thousand elephants a year to 33,000 – one every 15 minutes. The reversal of that decision is likely to be the greatest single step toward reducing elephant poaching.
The history of the ivory trade has shown that rather than replace illegal trade, “regulated trade” enables vast laundering of poached ivory into retail circles, and open promotion greatly increases the market. Despite years of government effort to perfect a theoretically watertight system, traders were easily able to pass off ivory stolen from Africa as legitimate using paperwork provided by naïve or, in some cases, corrupt officials. Story by Peter Knights/CEO of WildAid
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Ranger Report - Jan & Feb 2018
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Hi All,
I hope you are fine.
l would like to thank you for the support you rendered in 2017. Now that we are going into the rainy season we have a different plan to combat poaching. Because of bad roads during this time we started “flying anti poaching camps,” where scouts are camping for twenty (20) days before we put another team in the field.
We managed to confiscate two guns, impala meat, fifteen (15) snares and two pairs of ivory tusks. A poacher was arrested and a gun and impala meat was recovered in the Game Management Area near the Mwangazi River. The two pairs of ivory tusks was dropped by poachers after an encounter with officers on the Mutants Plain. More ivory and a firearm were recovered by another team of officers in Kazungula.
I would like to report that we had twenty (20) days operation in the month of January, 2018. In four different operations, we arrested three poachers, and we recovered two guns, a pair of ivory tusks and six pieces of ivory.
One poacher we arrested was a forty-five (45) year old man from Musoro village nicknamed “Commander.” He had a homemade muzzle loading gun which had no serial number. He was caught in Luangwa National Parks as he was hunting elephants. When he was caught he had not killed any, but he confirmed he was hunting elephants.
The other two poachers where caught with six pieces of ivory. They were on Mwanya Lundazi Road transporting 130.6 kilograms of ivory to be sold. They were from Malawi. They are now in prison cells waiting to appear in court.
Another gun was recovered after it was dropped by poachers when they saw wildlife officers from a distance. The officers tried to follow, but the distance between them was too great and they were unable to catch them.
The pair of ivory tusks were recovered in the afternoon of a sunny day from a dead elephant near the from Tena Tena Bush Camp.
Regards
Stay blessed
Charles Silomba
Anti Poaching Manager
Nsefu Wildlife Conservation Foundation
South Luangwa National Parks
Nsefu Sector
Mfuwe
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