ivory had been traded out of East Africa for centuries, the increasing scale of extraction in the nineteenth century would, in all probability, have had significant consequences for humans, elephants and the landscape. In order to understand these consequences, however, it is imperative to know where this ivory was being extracted and traded along East African caravan routes to then be able to consider the local ecosystems that were most affected by the trade
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The East African Ivory Trade in the Nineteenth Century on JSTOR - 0 views
Domestic ivory trade: the supply chain for raw ivory in Thailand is driven by the finan... - 0 views
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The international trade in wildlife parts and products is of significant conservation concern. The global demand for ivory, for example, is considered to be a significant threat to African elephant populations
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The ivory trade endangered the elephant species especially in africa as elephants were getting killed in huge numbers.
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Ivory products, such as jewelry or sacred items, are manufactured in two main areas: Surin in the Northeast, and Nakhon Sawan and Uthai Thani in the North. Manufacturers in Surin source tusks from Surin-based elephants that are either living locally or working in other areas. Raw tusks sourced from the South and the North have lower prices. Tusks from Southern owners are largely sold to Surin manufacturers; some are supplied to manufacturers in Nakhon Sawan.
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The ivory was used to manifucture different types of products. the ivory trade benefited the traders as it generated a lot of money and welth to them.
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Domestic ivory trade: the supply chain for raw ivory in Thailand is driven by the finan... - 0 views
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The chain consists of activities of five key groups of supply chain actors: elephant owners, intermediaries, manufacturers, retailers, and ivory customers.
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The international trade in wildlife parts and products is of significant conservation concern. The global demand for ivory, for example, is considered to be a significant threat to African elephant populations
The Supply of Ivory - 4 views
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To safeguard the future of the ivory trade Mr. Maskeli suggests that ivory should be made a Govern¬ ment monopoly in all our Colonial possessions, and that, at least, steps should be taken to enforce the regulations of the international agreement already referred to
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How long it would be before these stores were exhausted it was impossible to tell, but they might give out at any moment. Should they do so, the ivory trade would receive a very severe shock, and the slaughter of elephants, which even now threatened to drive these valuable animals to extinction, would become even more extensive
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""The Supply of Ivory." African Mail, 18 May 1906, p. 190. Nineteenth Century Collections Online, link.gale.com/apps/doc/KSWYYF286198381/NCCO?u=rau_itw&sid=bookmark-NCCO&xid=07807478. Accessed 24 Apr. 2023."
The East African Ivory Trade in the Nineteenth Century.pdf - 4 views
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But it was in the nineteenth century that the great development of the East African ivory trade took place. An increased demand for ivory in America and Europe coincided with the opening up of East Africa by Arab traders and European explorers, and this led to the intensive exploitation of the ivory resources of the interior. Thro
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the value of ivoty from the late 1700s through the 19th the ivory value from the 1700s through the 19th century grew exponentially, booming worldwide as increased societal wealth, conspicuous consumption and cheap labor encouraged its use in artwork, combs, keyboards, jewelry, hand fans, billiard balls, teething rings, and many other whatnots.
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The extent to which these ivory traders opened up the upper Nile is surprising. Giovanni Miani, a Venetian, penetrated beyond the River Asua in modern Uganda, explored the Bahr el-Ghazal and the headwaters of the streams rising in the Nyam Nyam country, and brought back rumours of a great river, the Uele, flowing to th
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Ivory is particularly coveted in Asia where it is used for carving and jewelry. Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe were given permission to sell stockpiles to Japan in 1999 and were joined by South Africa in 2008 in a sale to China and Japan.
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The Convoluted Nature of the African Ivory Trade.pdf - 2 views
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The illegal wildlife trade is currently one of the largest "black-market" industries in today’s world, falling fourth behind drug, gun, and human trafficking trades.
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William's paper is about the history of arican ivory trade and how illigal ivory trade was and again how it left the wid life endangered
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A ban on the legal sale of ivory in 1989 was put into effect by worldwide conservation organizations, such as The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the African Wildlife Fund (AWF), and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to try to save the elephant populations which had dropped extensively in numbers.
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The international commercial trade in ivory was banned in 1989, although many countries continued to sell ivory legally, within their own borders and exemptions for some types of ivory like antiques made exporting them legal, including here in the UK
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