Forestry Department officials in Italy have just raided ivory shops in Vatican City and Abruzzo, seizing ivory religious sculptures. Here is a google translate of the press release: These are artifacts representing religious subjects made of elephant ivory. The cost of … [Read more...]
Hong Kong Ivory Seizure: Where’s the Boss?
Last week, Hong Kong customs made a record ivory seizure. Not to take away from the work, but ivory seizures are deceptive. Unlike seizures of trafficked drugs, humans, or live wildife, ivory seizures do not protect the victim (the elephant is already dead). Seizures stop an … [Read more...]
Hunter Exposes Elephant Poaching in Tanzania
I received this letter and asked its writer Paul Lavender whether I might print it along with his name and photographs. It is not often one gets this window on elephant poaching from a hunter's perspective, and it is heartbreaking. Keep in mind that Tanzania, which led the … [Read more...]
My First Political Cartoon (the Mouse or the Elephant?)
The above cartoon is how the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper reads Blood Ivory: Ivory Worship this weekend even though Blood Ivory clearly states that China dwarfs the Philippines in its impact on the ivory trade (including this call out quote: "By all accounts, China is the world's … [Read more...]
World Responding to PH Catholic Ivory Scandal
Priest Investigated in Ivory-Smuggling Inquiry in Philippines By FLOYD WHALEY, New York Times MANILA — Philippine law enforcement officials said on Wednesday that they were investigating whether a senior priest in the Roman Catholic Church was involved in the smuggling of … [Read more...]