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Discussing the Ivory Crisis with Charlie Rose
- 08/01/14
- Elephant
- Gayane Margaryan
This past Monday, July 28, AWF CEO, and member of the United States Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking, Patrick Bergin, model and AWF Trustee Veronica Varekova, and Marcus Asner, fellow member of the Advisory Council, joined Charlie Rose on his show to discuss the elephant ivory crisis.
Ivory: From Bush to Market
- 07/21/14
- Elephant
- Kathleen Garrigan
Ivory taken from an elephant in Africa travels along an elaborate trade chain that spans countries, oceans, and continents—and comprises a network of poachers traffickers, fixers, kingpins, and consumers.
Behind the Legal, Domestic Ivory Trade, a Black Market Flourishes
- 07/03/14
- Elephant
- Kathleen Garrigan
In 1989, after a decades-long spate of elephant poaching and failed regulation of the commercial trade in ivory, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) finally made the decision to ban international trade in African elephant ivory.
The Time is Now to Save Africa's Elephants
- 06/26/14
- Elephant, Zambezi Elephant Conservation, Satao Elerai Lodge, Forest Elephant
- Dr. Dorothy Z. Oehler
Dear friends, I am a Mars scientist—not a wildlife activist. But I have been horrified to learn of the recent poaching of Satao, the beloved Kenyan elephant pictured here. He was poached for his ivory. The picture of his mutilated body is beyond words.
Elephants are Artists
- 06/24/14
- Elephant, Wildlife Waterholes in Parc W, Cameroon Elephant Anti-Poaching, Forest Elephant
- January Thompson
The Ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, once said that elephants were "the animal which surpasses all others in wit and mind."