Ivory E-trade Report 2013
Report on the elephant ivory trade in Africa and Asia.
This is our new "Internet trade of elephant ivory in Africa and Asia - Report 2013", made in collaboration with our Animal Conservation and Welfare Foundation colleagues in Poland.
This report was delivered in person to the heads of delegations of five continents at the CITES CoP16 in March, and also to the CITES Secretary-General Mr John Scanlon, to Mr. Wim Wijnstekers (the former CITES S.-General), to the CITES Secretariat, to Mr. Achim Steiner UNEP Executive Director, the Director of Interpol, to the enforcement authorities in Africa and Asia (but also from Latin America, US, Europe and Oceania), NGO's and international media.
It was very well received and our team was widely congratulated for this investigation.
I also received a couple of e-mails from Interpol HQ's in Switzerland with a message congratulating our CATCA/ACWF team for the initiative of doing this investigation, and another one saying that they have saved all our CATCA investigative e-trade of wildlife reports in their files "as good resources for future reference".
When delivering the report, I emphasized to the governments the importance of creating a section dedicated to monitor the e-trade of ivory and of wildlife, as this kind of trade is not only increasing worldwide, but this illegal wildlife trade also supports buying illegal weapons, organized crime, pirates and dictators, such as Koni.
Special thanks goes to all members of both teams that worked very hard researching the internet in several countries and languages for this investigation and in analysing the data.
This report is available for pdf download.
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