Tagged: ivory black market

To Dunedin! On an ivory quest! - Chthonic Wildlife Ramblings

Brendan Moyle • Oct 22, 2014 •

• China's ivory trade,
• CITES,
• conservation,
• economics of wildlife trade,
• Elephant,
• elephant conservation,
• elephant ivory,
• ivory,
• ivory black market,
• ivory smuggling,
• ivory trade,
• poaching,
• smuggling

Well, not exactly.   But on Friday, I will be at Otago University and giving a seminar on ivory black markets.  One topic I’m going to highlight is whether the legal factories in China (all 37 of them) are a significant source of illegal carvings. The production problem is usually glibly ignored or assumed away.  But essentially, if you do … Read More