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Ivory, Horn and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis Ronald Orenstein
Publisher: Firefly Books, Limited

But in a new A kilogram of elephant ivory has a black market price of about $2,200, while a rhino horn will for a staggering $66,000 per kilo, according to the senior director for African affairs at the National Security Staff of the White House. I hope the prosecution will appeal that low sentence and that The Kenya Government is taking it seriously and threaten that the noose is tightening on the throats of those who poach our wildlife and traffic ivory and rhino horn. Aug 21, 2013 - Ivory, Horn and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis. Feb 16, 2014 - All out war, launched against the poachers and the “Mr Bigs” behind the ivory and rhino horn trade, is the only way they will be stopped, along with intensive education of the end buyers of the terrible cost of the product. Of all the kinds of ivory, blood ivory is the most expensive. Feb 3, 2014 - People are sent down for years for stealing from a neighbour's laundry line or stealing food and those guilty of sabotaging Africa's and Kenya's economy by poaching elephant and rhinos are let off so lightly. Oct 20, 2013 - Ivory, Horn & Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis. 3 days ago - Chinese man sentenced in New Jersey to nearly 6 years for smuggling rhino horns, ivory · Main What did you notice about the way China, the U.S., and Africa “spoke” to each other about the trade and the poaching crisis? Oct 9, 2013 - He founded Save the Elephants in 1993, and was awarded the illustrious Order of the British Empire (OBE). My next blog is an expansion of what I am talking about. What I found is one of the major obstacles for solving this elephant poaching problem is that each party has a very different view about the motivations and constraints of the other parties. Sep 20, 2010 - “The number of horns moving out of Africa is escalating, with poached horns able to move from the site of the kill to the global market in as little as 48 hours,” said Tom Milliken, Director of TRAFFIC East and Southern Africa. Sep 24, 2013 - Al-Shabaab gets up to 40% of its funding from elephant poaching The world has watched in horror as the scale of the Al-Shabaab attack on the. Jul 18, 2013 - Demand from increasingly affluent Chinaand Southeast Asian nations has driven a surge in elephant poaching in recent years, leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of the animals annually, wildlife monitoring groups say. Mar 24, 2014 - There's a crisis of epic proportion occurring on our planet 24/7, 365: 'The War Against Nature' has become a prolonged looting spree — plundering terrestrial and oceanic wildlife on a global tear never witnessed before. Geoffrey – I think anything we can do collectively to circulate the news of the crisis that rhinos and elephants face is well worth it. Title: Ivory, Horn & Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis.