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Elephant Population in Vietnam Has Downsized to the Lowest Number in History

In estimation, there are only more and less 150 elephants in nature despite the fact that law on elephant ivory trade prohibition has been enforced since 2007 according to the latest news by the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS).

HTML clipboard     The figure has drawn much concern, especially when on March authorities confiscated 150 kilos of elephant ivory illegally transported to Quang Nịnh province, near to Chinese border.

Elephant ivory trade constantly occurs.

        TRAFFIC – the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network – said the seizure significantly show illegal elephant ivory trade keenly happened in Vietnam as well as Southeast Asia. Wildlife animal Smugglers in complicity with crime organizations tended to traffic ivory from Africa to Vietnam and other countries in the region for domestic consumption or re-exporting to other countries in the region.

    The seizure happened when the countries affected by illegal elephant hunting took action against illegal elephant trade globally.

    Over 130 countries this week joined a debate over elephant ivory at the conference on Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Doha, Qatar.

    At the last week Doha Conference, General Secretary of the convention gave certificates to customs officials of Hai Phong Port to praise their efforts to fight against trade in Wild Fauna and Flora in Vietnam. (Hai Phong is transition point of illegal trade in wildlife species, where a great number of well-known seizures took place last year.)

L.H (N.Thuong)

Author: phongvien

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