In response to significant elephant population declines in the 1970s and 1980s because of poaching for ivory, the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) banned the international trade in Asian and African elephant species by listing them on Appendix I in 1973 and 1989, respectiv
elephant distribution.pdf - 6 views
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This is an image by Engell, 1913 which depicts a map of Eastern Africa in the 1890s on the distribution of elephants. It shows various locations in which elephants are located. there are areas where they are rare, common and most common. As you can tell by the image, in other parts of the map (next to Kilimanjaro) elephants were becoming distinct due to the high number of ivory trades that was taking place around time. Ivory was one of the most influential things around the time because it generated a lot of profits for people. Source: Engell, 1913. (the link to the picture is below from Research Gate)
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Ivory: Manufactured Luxury | National Museum of American History - 5 views
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This journal article gives us more details on the history of ivory trade. It shows us how the global trade of ivory between African countries and outside countries like the United Nations developed them. Ivory trade had been around for years, but the end of slave trade in the 1800s led to the shift in more people engaging in poaching of elephants for the trade of ivory. The more these trades took place was the more the elephant population got extinct. About 75% of ivory would be shipped to Eastern Africa ports, one can imagine the number of elephants killed to get so much ivory. Everyday life objects would be made like hairbrushes, billiard balls, earrings and many more, so this would attract American buyers.
The ivory trade and elephant conservation.pdf - 3 views
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in the 1970s and 1980s because of poaching f
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In 1997, the CITES Conference of Parties voted to allow Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe to
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This is a very interesting reading by Daniel Stiles, it showed how the poaching of elephants became a problem when there was a slight decline in the 1970s to 1980s due to the high number of ivory trading that was taking place at the time. Non-governmental organizations and CITES came up with ways to ban the trade of ivory, of which is the reason why the generation of today is able to know about elephants without being told about them.
Elephant distribution in East Africa ca. 1890. Sources: Engell, 1913. | Down... - 7 views
Avorio d'ogni ragione: the supply of elephant ivory to northern Europe in the Gothic er... - 1 views
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This article accounts for the hitherto unexplained increase in the availability of ivory in mid-thirteenth-century France through an alteration in the medieval trade routes that brought elephant tusks from Africa to northern Europe
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why, after a scarcity of elephant ivory in northern Europe during the twelfth century, was there sudden access to such large tusks around 1240?
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