WWF says this continues to facilitate illicit ivory trade globally as recently poached ivory could masquerade as vintage ivory.
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"The ban will mean that the sale of elephant ivory and ivory products, and public display of elephant ivory and ivory products for the purpose of sale will be prohibited," it said.
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IVORY COAST: Ivory Coast is home to 692,000 stateless people.
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Seizures of smuggled ivory, and the size of the carved-ivory market compared with the small amount of legal ivory available, confirm it.
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He faced two counts of handling ivory tusks and possessing ivory.
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In 2018, China, which has long been one of the world's biggest ivory markets, banned all trade in ivory and ivory products in the country.
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Hong Kong to phase out ivory trade Alternative raw materials to ivory Legal restrictions mean that he is rarely able to keep raw ivory at his home.
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China, for one, recently banned even the legal trade of ivory and ivory products.
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The ivory papers can be easily forged, and the ivory in public shops is often smuggled ivory from recently killed elephants that has been illegally imported and fraudulently labeled.
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The ivory ban will prohibit Americans from selling most products containing ivory across state lines.
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EDOUKOUKRO, Ivory Coast/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Kouakou Kinimo is a pretty typical Ivory Coast cocoa farmer.
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The laws regulate the domestic ivory market and criminalize the sale of African elephant ivory.
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As I scrolled, some profiles I saw openly showcased what appeared to be ivory bangles, ivory rings, and in at least one ironic case, mini ivory elephants, complete with tusks.
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Other vendors had replaced elephant ivory displays with mammoth ivory dug out of the Russian tundra.
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Transit costs in Ivory Coast are also double those in Ghana, an Ivory Coast-based exporter said.
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Smugglers in Ivory Coast hid the ivory in hollowed logs filled with wax and resealed with glue.
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Wildlife authorities in Kenya, a major hub of ivory smuggling, welcomed the news of China's falling ivory prices.
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During the summer, pitmasters Ivory Davis Jr. and Ivory Davis III bought themselves a new, custom-built smoker.
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THE IVORY GAME A documentary about the world of ivory trafficking and the extinction threat facing African elephants.
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To make 'ivory black,' I gathered some discarded shards of ivory from a keyboard factory in Ivoryton, Connecticut.
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President Obama announced his plans to tighten up ivory bans last year, and the states with the three largest illegal ivory markets—New York, California, and Hawaii—have all recently enacted ivory-banning laws.
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The African elephant ivory ban would severely limit the trade of products containing ivory — even if the ivory was obtained legally — in the United States, with a few exceptions for musicians and gun owners.
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US to World: Crush Ivory Stockpiles & Send a Message to Poachers: ELEPHANTS ARE WORTH MORE THAN IVORY #IvoryCrush pic.twitter.
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The Kenyan burning of ivory stockpile is a response to that, a way to take ivory off the market.
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Demand for ivory despite bans In January this year, China enacted a ban on the sale of ivory products.
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It is strapless with a sweetheart neckline and comes in white, ivory or ivory-nude (blush tone); $1,2900. 2888.
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Ivory traders have said their sales are legal because they come from an ivory stockpile imported before the international ban.
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It's a troubling case that highlights how entangled the illegal, poached ivory market is with the legal, antique ivory trade.
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The campaign educates people on how ivory products are made and asks people to pledge never to buy ivory again.
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With his late partner Ismail Merchant, Ivory formed the renowned British studio Merchant Ivory, known for its sumptuous period dramas.
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China, the world's largest ivory market, said it plans to shut down its ivory trade by the end of 2017.
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But they're poached for their large ivory tusks, making ivory poaching one of the most noted examples of wildlife trafficking.
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Ivory Queen is sentenced to 15 years in prison for smuggling $5.6 million-worth of ivory from Tanzania to China.
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As for the ivory artwork, he said the Moranos' license to sell ivory had expired in 20113 without their knowledge.
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China has banned its ivory trade, but this has not reduced poaching levels, Mr. Milliken said, adding that traders continued to sell ivory products on social media, while neighboring countries had active ivory markets for Chinese tourists.
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The US is the second-largest market for poached ivory in the world, and although new, poached ivory has been banned for decades, the legal trade of antique ivory has served as a cover-up for poached items.
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China, the largest market for ivory, banned its sale in 2017 and closed ivory carving factories, causing a drop in demand.
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And the mammoth ivory industry, they say, could end up providing legal cover for the black-market trade in elephant ivory.
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The filmmakers behind "The Ivory Game" investigate ivory-trafficking — both the people behind it and the activists trying to end it.
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Zimbabwe also wants the global ban on the ivory trade lifted, so that it can sell its ivory and rhino horn stockpile.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta burned large piles of ivory on Saturday to show that Kenya is serious about ending the illegal ivory trade.
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A vast volume of ivory is sold illegally, and so scientists and statisticians cannot get good data to establish whether one-off sales of ivory exacerbate demand for ivory, or what kind of impact sales may have on speculative activity.
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The plan also involves stringent regulation of legal ivory collection, strengthening enforcement and education and "vigorously" pushing for a transformation of the ivory carving industry, including helping encourage ivory carving masters to find work with museums or in preservation efforts.
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Three recent arrests for illegal wildlife trafficking have received wide attention among conservationists: Feisal Mohamed Ali, charged with trafficking in ivory in Kenya; Abdurahman Mohammed Sheikh, another alleged ivory trafficker in Kenya; and Yang Fenglan, Tanzania's so-called queen of ivory.
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Critics have been touting DiCaprio's "The Ivory Game", about Africa's illegal ivory trade, for a prestigious Academy Award in the documentary film category.
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By criminalizing the purchase of ivory, the ban is meant to stop people from selling and buying ornaments and trinkets made from ivory.
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They also intend to severely restrict the African ivory market in the United States, the world's second-largest consumer of illegally poached ivory.
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Ivory and Powell were New York's best backs last season, with Ivory finally living up to his potential as a true workhorse back.
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Carved ivory upper and lower dentures (219th century) The first dentures were made of hippopotamus ivory, which was thought to be more durable.
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It's the latest rerelease from the Cohen Film Collection, which is restoring the Merchant Ivory Library under the oversight of Mr. Ivory himself.
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Importing and exporting ivory across international borders is banned, but licensed ivory sellers are allowed to sell pre-1989 ivory domestically, though a 2015 investigation by a conservation group concluded that some traders appear to be using the legal trade as a cover.
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In recent years China, which has permitted such sales, has been the world's largest ivory market, estimated to account for 70% of ivory sold.
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In December, two major global conversation unions adopted resolutions to ban all domestic ivory sales, on top of existing bans on international ivory trading.
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A Hong Kong government-led operation in last year found two ivory traders had sold chopsticks made from ivory obtained after the 1990 ban.
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But 10 countries, including Ivory Coast and Kenya, are seeking to end all trade in ivory, arguing that demand is driving poaching, he added.
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Once illegal African elephant ivory made it past the border, Thai authorities were powerless to do anything about it, causing ivory markets to flourish.
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The leader of the criminal organization in Ivory Coast has ties to two ivory seizures in Vietnam and Cambodia, according to the Eagle Network.
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As part of their sentence, they forfeited all the seized ivory and an additional 1,657 ivory carvings, all of which were crushed on Thursday.
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In January, the leader of Hong Kong said the city, long a major bastion of the ivory trade, would phase out the sale of ivory.
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Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN)The government of Ivory Coast and mutinying soldiers reached an agreement Friday evening, the defense ministry said on its Facebook page.
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Legal ivory markets, such as those in China and Japan, are often accused of fuelling elephant poaching because illegal ivory is sometimes sold through them.
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Eleven piles of ivory, representing the tusks of more than 230,2000 elephants, were reduced to ashes on Saturday in the largest ivory burn ever seen.
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Eleven piles of ivory, representing the tusks of more than 6,1053 elephants, were reduced to ashes on Saturday in the largest ivory burn ever seen.
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China, one of the biggest markets for ivory, put into effect a ban on the sale of commercial ivory at the end of last year.
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For example, in teapots from the 18th century, the handles were carved from ivory to protect hands from burns, because ivory does not conduct heat.
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The new restrictions effectively prohibited the sale of ivory except in limited circumstances, like the sale of antique musical instruments containing small amounts of ivory.
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There are two other states that already ban ivory (New Jersey and Washington) and 14 more states have proposals, but in-state ivory sales are still legal in much of the US. Closing those markets, and getting other countries like China to follow through on their ivory-ban promises, will all help to take a significant bite out of the demand for poached ivory.
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The same applies to musical instruments with less than 22014 percent ivory, made before 21880, and to portrait miniatures on ivory more than 100 years old.
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Protests Turn Deadly in Ivory Coast Ahead of Presidential Elections "Ivory Coast will not let itself be intimidated by terrorists," Ouattara said in a televised address.
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The bride can be seen wearing an ivory gown (reportedly from Houston's Ivory Bridal) with ruffled details, a full-length veil, and a plunging sweetheart neckline.
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In September of 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to shut down its domestic ivory market and enact "nearly complete bans" on ivory imports and exports.
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"Ivory belongs to the elephants and ivory is worth more on a live animal rather than a dead animal," Kenya's environment minister, Judi Wakhungu, told Reuters.
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Law-enforcement officials in Ivory Coast said they had arrested six people and confiscated more than half a ton of ivory, leopard parts and illegal firearms.
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Dr. Hsiang cautioned, for example, that experiments trying to undermine black markets in elephant ivory by selling legal ivory backfired and ultimately lead to increased poaching.
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Officials burned stockpiles of ivory on the mainland before phalanxes of news cameras, and they began discussing the possibility of imposing a ban on ivory imports.
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Ninety percent of ivory buyers in Hong Kong are tourists from mainland China, despite the a prohibition on ivory exports without a permit, according to Vertefeuille.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China, the world's largest importer and end user of elephant ivory tusks, is shutting a third of its ivory factories and retail stores on Friday, the first major step ahead of a formal ban on ivory sales by the end of the year.
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By the end of 2017, though, any sale of ivory in China will be illegal, and all licensed ivory dealers will have had to shut up shop.
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China and the United States, two of the biggest ivory markets, announced plans last year to enact almost complete bans on imports and exports of commercial ivory.
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Chinese demand for ivory is also blamed as a driver behind the slaughter of African elephants, despite Beijing banning all trade in ivory starting from this year.
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Yet according to IMF figures, in 2014 trade between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso was worth just €376m, or a mere 2% of Ivory Coast's total trade.
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This year, he is an executive producer on Netflix documentary "The Ivory Game," about Africa's illegal ivory trade, also making its debut at the Toronto film festival.
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Trump adjusted her outfit and climbed out of a vehicle to visit an ivory burn site, where the material has been destroyed to discourage the ivory trade.
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The two types of ivory can generally be told apart by their appearance — mammoth ivory is often darker on the outside — and by the pattern of crosshatching.
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Nearly two tons of ivory worth about $8 million was destroyed at the "Ivory Crush" event, which was timed to precede World Elephant Day on Aug. 248.
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"Even if it's old," Ms. Ho said, "as long as you have an ivory item, you are perpetuating the myth that ivory has value and is collectible."
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On a recent trip to Hanoi, Vietnam's capital, he said, he visited an ivory workshop that used a computerized machine that carved five ivory pieces at once.
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You guys have literally eggshell, eggshell whites, beige, stone, ivory... You have every variation of ivory, and then you picked mahogany and deep honey to make who happy?
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It shows ivory burns, in which carved ivory collected in the illegal trade is set on fire, some of the aftermath of poaching, and protests against the trade.
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Singapore banned the commercial import and export of ivory in 1990, although ivory that entered the market before 1990 is still permitted for sale in the city-state.
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Ebony and ivory There's no harmony in New Zealand after the government ordered the ivory key tops of a 123-year-old piano to be removed and dumped.
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We spoke to the owner, Robert Rogal, during an "ivory crush" held in Central Park this past August where the DEC publicly destroyed illegal ivory agents had seized.
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Mr Wasser's work shows that individual ivory shipments are not one-off deals and that the ivory is rarely shipped out of the country from which it is sourced.
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DAOUKRO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara's governing coalition appeared to split on Monday when a junior partner said it was pulling out after months of feuds.
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Those opposed to any loosening of the ban say "dirty ivory" can be laundered by poachers and crime syndicates with licit supplies and that it makes ivory socially acceptable.
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Wildlife researchers estimate that 50 percent to 70 percent of all smuggled elephant ivory — maybe even more — ends up in China, where there are countless ivory workshops and showrooms.
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Though the trade in mammoth ivory is touted as an ethical alternative, activists fear it could end up providing legal cover for the black-market trade in elephant ivory.
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Wildlife advocates say that this legal trade is used to mask the sale of illicit ivory, with pre-1989 ivory and tusks smuggled from recent poachers mixed in together.
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The Hong Kong government dealt a significant blow to the international ivory market this week when it announced plans to ban trade in ivory and other elephant hunting trophies.
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She remains confident that ivory will fall out of favor largely due to changing tastes and awareness from young people on the impact illegal ivory can have on the environment.
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Regulatory loopholes allow traders to use a stockpile of legal ivory as cover to smuggle illegal ivory to unsuspecting buyers, say groups such as the World Wildlife Fund and WildAid.
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Her picks: Wet n Wild's Mega Cushion Foundation SPF 15 in Light Ivory 106A (available December 2017 on Wet n Wild's site) and the PhotoFocus Concealer in Light Ivory 840B.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will ban the domestic trade in ivory from September 2021, the government said on Monday, shutting the door to an important end-market for poached elephant ivory.
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Though often regarded as a problem restricted to Asia, the US has the second biggest ivory market in the world, and a lot of that ivory is traded at auction.
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In principle, the closing of the Chinese market, which has accounted for 50 to 70 percent of illegal ivory, will go a long way toward extinguishing the traffic in ivory.
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According to Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, the ivory recovered from the Morano's store was the largest seizure of illegal elephant ivory in New York State history.
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Southern African countries have always claimed that they should be allowed to sell ivory as a reward for their elephant protection achievements and buyers of ivory in China and Japan are shielded from news of the killing fields; they are persuaded to think that by buying ivory, they are helping elephants and Africa.
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In China right now, large pieces of legal ivory come with documents certifying that the ivory was acquired before the 1989 worldwide ban on the commercial ivory trade or that it came from one of the authorized sales since then, when a few African countries were allowed to sell from their stockpiles.
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Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN)Amid unrest in cities across the nation, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced Saturday the government reached an agreement with soldiers who have been demanding pay bonuses.
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China is the world's largest ivory market, with an estimated 70 percent of all ivory trade taking place within its borders where it can fetch as much as $2,400 per pound.
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The government will no longer allow ivory products to be displayed in real or online markets -- only noncommercial sites, such as museums, will be allowed to display ivory, China Daily says.
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But conservationists have accused traders of using the legal trade as a cover to sell newer ivory, especially to mainland China -- believed to be the biggest ivory market in the world.
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Now Yastrzhembsky is trying to cause a stir with his "Ivory - A Crime Story", which names and shames top ivory buyers such as China, the Vatican and Buddhist monks in Thailand.
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The unit said two of the suspects came from Ivory Coast and one from Guinea, and that the ivory had come from as far afield as Gabon, Nigeria, Mozambique and Uganda.
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But an investigator who is tracking the Chinese nationals suspected of running ivory smuggling networks out of Pemba, Mozambique, says the ban has done little to halt ivory transactions in Africa.
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By extracting elephant DNA from illegal ivory, the team mapped the passage of ivory shipments across multiple cartels and in multiple countries, and provided evidence to connect smugglers with poaching operations.
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DAKAR, Senegal — Officials in Ivory Coast said Thursday that they had broken up an international ivory-smuggling network, the second announcement of such a bust on the African continent this month.
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The announcement on Thursday followed another bust of ivory trafficking in Africa: Last week, Gabon announced it had broken up a major smuggling network responsible for trading six tons of ivory.
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Mainland China banned the trade of ivory in 2018 in an effort to stymie demand in the world's largest ivory market, though it's unclear to what extent the measure is working.
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This opened the door for a one-off sale of ivory to Japan in 2002 and to China and Japan in 2008, despite warnings from experts that this would unleash explosive demand -- resulting in ivory price inflation -- and trigger an uncontrollable poaching surge that would feed illegal ivory into the legal markets of China.
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Though Ivory has written films before, he's best known for his work as a director and as a principal in Merchant Ivory Productions, which he formed with producer Ismail Merchant in 1961.
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Every year some 20123,000 to 30,000 elephants are slaughtered for their ivory tusks to feed a demand for Chinese and Southeast Asian markets, despite a commercial ban on the trade of ivory.
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SOUBRE, Ivory Coast, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast started producing power on Thursday at a 275 megawatt (MW) hydroelectric plant that will boost the country's electricity output by more than 10 percent.
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Activists and lawmakers cite such incidents as evidence that the ivory trade has profited from the Hong Kong loophole, with traders creating an incentive for poaching by selling new ivory among antiques.
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In a survey conducted by WildAid and Hong Kong University in 2014, 96 percent of respondents said they had never purchased ivory and 71 percent supported banning ivory sales in Hong Kong.
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LONDON — The British Museum has announced that it has accepted a donation of 556 Chinese ivory carvings, amid tightening global restrictions on the ivory trade and before a coming ban in Britain.
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As part of their sentence, the brothers forfeited all of the ivory seized during the investigation and an additional 1,657 ivory carvings, according to Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Mutinous soldiers in Ivory Coast shot three people on Saturday and cut off access to the second-largest city, Bouaké, as a revolt escalated over demands for bonus payments.
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Wildlife researchers estimate that 50 percent to 70 percent of all smuggled elephant ivory — maybe even more — ends up in China, where there are countless ivory workshops and showrooms, many perfectly legal.
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But Hong Kong, like other jurisdictions, grandfathered in whatever stockpiles of ivory existed at the time, allowing for continued trade — and opening up a loophole for the introduction of new ivory pieces.
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It was a momentous change, and a recognition that while the city is important to the ivory trade, the ivory trade is no longer very important to the city or its residents.
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At the summit, Mnangagwa also called for the lifting of a global ivory trade ban so his country could sell its ivory and rhino horn stockpile, which he said was worth $600 million.
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Ivory Coast's main production area has for decades been subject to explosive disputes over land ownership between native groups in the area and migrants from neighboring countries and other parts of Ivory Coast.
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"When there are legal markets for ivory it creates an opportunity for laundering of ivory into the country," said Wildlife Conservation Society vice president of international policy and head of delegation, Sue Lieberman.
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In March, China imposed a ban on imports of ivory acquired before 1975 until the end of this decade, and extended an existing ban on ivory acquired after 1975 for the same period.
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But the problem is that any regulation would apply not just to high-end art dealers, but anyone selling ivory, and that leaves gaps where illegal ivory can still circulate, according to Allgood.
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African elephants are still being killed by the thousands each year for their ivory tusks to make trinkets and tchotchkes, even though international ivory trafficking has been illegal since 1990, the WWF reports.
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Africa is struggling with an epidemic of illegal ivory poaching.
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Ivory Coast has an installed grinding capacity of 712,000 tonnes.
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"CEOs don't sit up in an Ivory Tower," he said.
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A pile of ivory is burned during a ceremony Sept.
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James Ivory became the oldest Oscar winner of all time.
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How is life at the top of your ivory tower?
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The falling prices reflect a decrease in demand for ivory.
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The mutiny takes the shine off Ivory Coast's recent successes.
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She carried an elegant bouquet of white and ivory flowers.
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The U.S., U.K. and China have all outlawed ivory trade.
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But that prompted some ivory poachers to turn to pangolins.
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They arrived bringing gold, ivory and rhino horn for sale.
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In Brazil or Ivory Coast it is nearer to 280%.
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"The Ivory Game" is released on Netflix on November 4.
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It is further exploring in Senegal, Ivory Coast and Guinea.
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Cocoa exporters are among the major borrowers in Ivory Coast.
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The Ivory Collection of Reiner Winkler Now in the Liebieghaus.
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They wore ivory silk and chiffon gowns with chapel trains.
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She arrived in Ivory Coast on Tuesday, after visiting Ethiopia.
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For extra flair, may we recommend an ivory finish, perhaps?
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Ivory Coast's government spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
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Pablo Picasso owned a 1963 Continental sedan in ivory white.
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Is the sale of ivory legal in the United States?
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However, they can sell permitted ivory to a Kentucky buyer.
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Sharro examined the cases of gold jewelry and ivory carvings.
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In pedigree and in running style, Robinson, 26, resembles Ivory.
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Reader form created by CNN's Ivory Sherman and Tiffany Baker.
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Brother Vellies Ivory Sphere Sandal, $584, available at Brother Vellies.
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The whites of Mazer's eyes were something closer to ivory.
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Mombasa, Kenya, is one of the most notorious ivory ports.
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They can hear us up there in their ivory towers?
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In Ovid, Venus brings the ivory figure to sensate life.
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The suspects were charged with organized crime and ivory trafficking.
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The sale of ivory and rhino horns is hugely lucrative.
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Ivory is primarily bought by collectors or as an investment.
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In January, Mr. Xi banned the domestic trade in ivory.
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In Ivory Coast, President Alassane Ouattara announced a 9 p.m.
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Danielle Rose Ivory and Joshua David Sibble were married Sept.
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Ivory Soap was first sold in 1878 by Procter & Gamble.
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The socks come in three colors: oatmeal, rust, or ivory.
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The European Union has yet to enact an ivory ban.
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Ivory Coast has more than 2.5 million hectares of cocoa.
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For all those reasons, China long resisted restrictions on ivory.
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Most of the ivory ends up in Asia, especially China.
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Now 54, Mr. Dai stopped carving elephant ivory last year.
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WASHINGTON — They came from Ethiopia, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Ivory Coast, Uzbekistan.
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"It's been very difficult to get names," Ms. Ivory said.
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Trade it for ivory sand at White Sands National Park.
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Meantime, sales of ivory via Yahoo Japan have risen exponentially.
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Another person made ornamental beads of ivory and animal teeth.
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Ivory Coast, Mongolia and St. Maarten have also signed on.
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Ivory Coast extradited Ble Goude to the ICC in 2014.
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We can only talk about you from our ivory tower.
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Hong Kong, a Chinese "Special Administrative Region", allows trade of "pre-convention ivory" which refers to products such as ivory carvings and crafts acquired before 1975, as long as they are accompanied by certificates.
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GUIGLO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - An ethnic-fueled land dispute has driven thousands of farmers off illegal plantations in Ivory Coast's main cocoa belt, threatening the start of the harvest in the world's top producer.
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The southern African nation keeps in storage 70 tonnes of ivory from elephants and rhinos - worth at least $35 million - and is seeking support from neighboring countries to engage in international trade in ivory.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc said on Friday it was banning the sale of ivory on its site, shutting a major sales route in one of the world's largest legal ivory markets.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - More than 200 commercial trucks were stranded on the roadside after mutinous soldiers sealed off the southern entrance to Ivory Coast's second-biggest city, Bouake, on Monday, Reuters witnesses said.
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Yet with some anti-poaching campaigners working to end ivory consumption regardless of its source, mammoth ivory also is coming under regulation — a situation that the jewelry makers who use it view with concern.
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She began incorporating mammoth ivory into her creations, employing indigenous Alaskans to decorate the ancient material using a scrimshaw technique, in which the ivory is etched and then the pattern highlighted with vegetable dyes.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A wildlife charity set up a fake online ivory shop in Singapore, attracting widespread condemnation, in a stunt to underline local laws which it says continue to facilitate illicit ivory trade globally.
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The ban strengthens a 2013 ban on the ivory trade that, for instance, allowed the sale of ivory from animals certified to have died of natural causes — a clear invitation to forgery and fraud.
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"The Presidency of ... Ivory Coast is surprised that this document, which targets the president of the second institution of the Republic of Ivory Coast, was issued with disregard for rules and customs," read a statement.
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DALOA, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Heavy rain in Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions has damaged flowers and small pods on trees, pod counters and farmers said, raising concern for the development of the upcoming main crop.
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Only ivory hunted before 1990 is allowed to be traded when it is accompanied by a pre-convention certificate, but trade in "pre-convention" ivory has been thriving in China and Hong Kong since 1975.
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China hosts the largest ivory trade in the world, estimated to account for up to 70 percent of the world's ivory ending up there, selling for as much as $1,100 per gram, BBC News reported.
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Our willingness to tighten domestic ivory regulations under the Endangered Species Act in 2016 was crucial to securing China's commitment to shutter its own vast ivory market, the driving force behind the elephant poaching crisis.
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DAKAR, Senegal — Officials in Gabon say they have dismantled the Central African nation's largest ivory trafficking network, which last year alone was responsible for trading, selling and shipping six tons of ivory across the continent.
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The Tanzanian Serious Crimes investigation unit has arrested high-profile suspects, including Yang Feng Glan, a Chinese woman whom Tanzanian officials call "the ivory queen" responsible for exporting thousands of tons of ivory to China.
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It was previously theorized that as West African trade routes opened up, elephant ivory began to become more popular due to its homogenous finish, compared to the marbled look of walrus ivory, according to Barrett.
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And it's true that you can't tell at a glance whether the jewelry was made of old ivory or new or, for that matter, faux ivory made from Tagua palm kernels, cow bones or resin.
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To the untrained eye, there is little to distinguish elephant ivory from mammoth, but scientists at the American Museum of Natural History were able to determine that Landmark's so-called mammoth ivory was from elephants.
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If true, this equates to roughly $500 billion worth of ivory.
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Those found guilty of ivory trafficking already face a life sentence.
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Lawmaker Elizabeth Quat said ivory smuggling was tarnishing Hong Kong's image.
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The epic train was made of ivory taffeta and antique lace.
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Will this push arts institutions further up into an ivory tower?
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Unlike elephant ivory, rhino horn grows back after a few years.
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The 2017/18 cocoa season in Ivory Coast began on Oct.
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Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe also want to trade some stockpiled ivory.
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Instead he crossed just one land border, into neighbouring Ivory Coast.
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Ivory Coast is still very poor—about as poor as Bangladesh.
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Ivory Coast's recent relative stability should not be taken for granted.
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Ghana and Ivory Coast produce about 60% of the world's cocoa.
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Vietnam's unsavoury appetites include ivory, pangolin, bear bile and tiger parts.
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The cashew marketing season in Ivory Coast opened officially on Feb.
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"André Aciman just laughed at the idea to me," Ivory dished.
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Ivory carving masters will be encouraged to move into museum work.
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She also wore ivory opaque tights and beige soft leather shoes.
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Ivory Clasp is backed by an undisclosed amount of seed funding.
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Political correctness has run amok; snowflakery festers in the ivory towers.
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Adora is the legacy, and Marian is her perfect shiny ivory.
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The example I give in the book is the ivory trade.
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The ivory ban does suggest Chinese attitudes towards wildlife are changing.
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Barbara wore a custom Vera Wang gown of ivory silk crepe.
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And on another smaller ivory rectangle it specifies a dress code.
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Singapore previously seized 177 kilograms (390 pounds) of ivory in April.
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Six of them are from Somalia, another from the Ivory Coast.
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The ebony/ivory interior was elegant and plush without being fussy.
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The IUCN does not regulate the ivory trade, domestically or globally.
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Governments already banned the international ivory trade in a 20163 treaty.
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Ivory Coast produces more than a third of the world's cocoa.
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Ivory Coast authorities want the port to become a regional hub.
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Just five years ago, Ivory Coast seemed like a lost cause.
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In April it burnt 105 tonnes of ivory from 8,000 animals.
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For many years Ivory Coast's economic fortunes were tied to agriculture.
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The piles of burnt ivory were valued at over $23 million.
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Gbagbo hopes to return home to Ivory Coast, his daughter said.
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The Solo Pros will also come in black, gray, and ivory.
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A year later, we succeeded in getting DNA out of ivory.
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Ivory Coast, with the stated intent of getting rid of Doe.
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This luxurious stocking comes in colors like green, ivory, and red.
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Ivory was a budding film director, Merchant a budding film producer.
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Some green groups disagree that the mammoth ivory trade is ethical.
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Ivory Soap Democrats won't cut it in territory like the 18th.
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I scraped away the subcutaneous tissue revealing his ivory white cranium.
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Later he would conclude that the ivory keys were not original.
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"At that point, I was feeling very confident," Ms. Ivory said.
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Ivory trafficking brings in $4 billion a year worldwide, he said.
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This one, in carved ivory, is a star of the collection.
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"I didn't even know about college in Ivory Coast," he said.
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Four items — including two ivory leopards — were given to Queen Victoria.
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The carvings were confiscated in recent ivory busts in New York.
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You're in the Ivory Tower you want everything to be perfect.
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Poaching for ivory killed 30,000 a year from 2010 to 5003.
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It is a small necklace of carved ivory elephants and beads.
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CI, a banking and insurance group headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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Ivory is traditionally used in Japan for carved 'hanko' name seals.
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The law gave dealers two years to sell their mammoth ivory.
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Macron visited Ivory Coast in late December, before the warrant emerged.
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Stuffed monkeys, ivory carvings, snow leopard coats and dried seal penises.
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Trade in African elephant ivory was banned by CITES in 1990.
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Forte is a better, healthier runner than Ivory has ever been.
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Under any other circumstance, the sale of ivory is a crime.
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These methods aren't going to end the ivory trafficking industry overnight.
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Hong Kong's legislature voted to ban all ivory sales by 2021.
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On Thursday, the US Fish and Wildlife Services announced a near total ban on the import, export, and interstate trade of elephant ivory in the US. The new rules do make some exceptions for a few items like family heirloom artworks or antique musical instruments with small ivory inlays, but it largely puts a stop to any ivory products being bought and sold in the US. Still the question remains: does banning ivory in the US really do anything to stop poaching in Africa?
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast, May 15 (Reuters) - More than 200 commercial trucks were stranded on the roadside after mutinous soldiers sealed off the southern entrance to Ivory Coast's second-biggest city, Bouake, on Monday, Reuters witnesses said.
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SINGAPORE, Aug 8 (Reuters) - A wildlife charity set up a fake online ivory shop in Singapore, attracting widespread condemnation, in a stunt to underline local laws which it says continue to facilitate illicit ivory trade globally.
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"There is so much corruption in Africa, so much corruption in other places, that illegal ivory started to enter the trade and the market value for ivory today is higher than it's ever been," he explained.
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"If they were released unconditionally (the convictions) could be an incentive for them to go to a country other than Ivory Coast where they would not be extradited to Ivory Coast or the ICC," he warned.
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The decision to close down its domestic commercial elephant ivory trade is being hailed as a potentially transformative step toward protecting Africa's elephants, which are being slaughtered for their valuable tusks that are made of ivory.
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DALOA, Ivory Coast, May 24 (Reuters) - Insufficient rain has dented the size and quality of cocoa beans delivered to Ivory Coast's main ports of Abidjan and San Pedro, despite recent improvements, growers and exporters told Reuters.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong voted on Wednesday to ban ivory sales in the world's largest ivory retail market, a move wildlife activists hailed as vital towards halting the slaughter of elephants.
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While China has pledged to shut down its domestic ivory trade by the end of this year, ivory imported before 1989 can be legally traded in Japan, with the government denying a link to illegal poaching.
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"The core policy implication is that poaching is still really out of control and we need to be closing down all domestic ivory market because the international ivory trade ban in itself is not being enough."
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ABIDJAN, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Maroc Telecom has won a telecoms licence in Ivory Coast and has paid a first instalment of 50 billion CFA francs ($82.54 million), Ivory Coast's presidency said without announcing the total fee.
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The government had previously said it would ban ivory without specifying a time frame, following an October resolution by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species calling for further action to stop the ivory trade.
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The state of California enacted an almost total ban in July on ivory, including that from elephants, mammoths and walruses, in a bid to prevent illegally poached elephant ivory from being passed off as other varieties.
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While mammoth ivory has been promoted as an ethical alternative, since it does not come from the poaching of live animals, some conservationists argue that the booming trade in it fuels demand for ivory in general.
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Hong Kong, which has been called the "dark heart of the ivory trade," said in January it would phase out the sale of ivory by 2021, but some say that isn't fast enough to stave off extinction.
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The alliance was seen as a key factor keeping the peace between Ivory Coast's central Baoule ethnic group and the rival Dioula people of northern Ivory Coast, many of whom are migrants from Mali and Burkina Faso.
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"This final rule will allow us to more strictly regulate trade in African elephant ivory and help to ensure that the U.S. ivory market is not contributing to the poaching of elephants in Africa," the agency wrote.
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The appetite of China's growing middle class for ivory helped drive the price from $120 per kilogram in 2002 to $2,100 per kilogram in 2014, generating huge sums for syndicates that traffic ivory through criminal supply chains.
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Yes, they can, said Scott Defrin, an expert in antique European ivory carvings and a spokesperson for the Art and Antique Dealers League of America, a trade organization that has actively opposed stricter legislation on ivory trade.
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Hartwig Fischer, the museum's director, condemned the modern ivory trade on Wednesday at the institution's annual review, according to a transcript provided to The New York Times, but he defended the decision to preserve existing ivory artifacts.
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Ivory Coast, the region's second fastest-growing economy, is in a programme.
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How about a real ivory carving from one made out of bone?
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He hopes that elephant ivory and rhino horn will lose their luster.
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We had undercover meetings where they talked about being involved in ivory.
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Each color (moss, navy, black, ivory) is available at the discount price.
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Color choices include black, ivory, gray, dark blue, light blue, and red.
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"Poaching for ivory is the biggest single threat to elephants," Jones said.
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After the ivory trade was banned in 1989, elephants' fortunes turned around.
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And Ivory Coast is a much better place to start a business.
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Ghana and Ivory Coast are trying to claw up the value chain.
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Ghana is the world's second-largest cocoa producer, after neighboring Ivory Coast.
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Lately it's been related to the rhino horn and elephant ivory trade.
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But eventually, making ivory worth less should reduce the incentive to poach.
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The early sex toys were made of bone and ivory and teeth.
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A fourth shape is a quasi-rectangle painted in solid ivory white.
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Levin compared Ivory to the beloved '80s sitcom nanny/butler, Mr. Belvedere.
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To get at his prized ivory tusks, poachers hacked off his face.
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He kissed her, and she felt warm, which is weird for ivory.
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Both are nominated — Ivory for Best Screenplay and Chalamet for Best Actor.
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In recent years, China has taken moves to outlaw the ivory trade.
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The central issues at the conference concern the ban on trading ivory.
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Coral, starfish, fur, ivory, hide, feathers, teeth and eggs are all contributors.
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KS: Right, because you were showing how [poachers] were getting their ivory.
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In Ivory Coast, supply issues were expected to persist until year end.
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Ian Ivory is a partner at international law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner.
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Ivory trading continues on Yahoo Japan, the country's biggest online auction site.
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Ivory Coast estimates about 40 percent its cocoa comes from protected areas.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is entering the rainy season.
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The ivory stockpile is being closely guarded by the Kenya Wildlife Service.
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Ivory Coast shares its currency, the CFA franc, with its northern neighbours.
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The picture showed an ivory oval face, long eyelashes for a man.
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Between 2010-2012, Illegal ivory in China was worth $597 million annually.
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Mr. Leakey presided over a large ivory bonfire in Kenya in 1989.
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Conservation groups cheered China's announcement, calling it a major blow to ivory.
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Certified financial planner Ivory Johnson isn't surprised by the popularity of cash.
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In the typical fashion of the ivory tower intelligentsia, scapegoats were conceived.
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This has given us a new understanding of how ivory trade works.
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I'm from Ivory Coast, where Donald Trump would look like Thomas Jefferson.
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Singapore announced this year it will ban its ivory market by 2021.
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Ending the slaughter won't be easy given the lucrative international ivory market.
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Perhaps inevitably, this appropriated version is now filtering back to Ivory Coast.
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The French authorities had warned that Ivory Coast and Senegal were vulnerable.
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At least some people are parking at least some money in ivory.
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The library is a literal ivory tower full of scholarly magic-users.
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On the international level, Tiote appeared in 52 games for Ivory Coast.
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IVORY COAST, GHANA STRIKE FIRST COCOA DEALS WITH LIVING INCOME PREMIUM - SOURCES
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But fresh ivory has continued to make its way into Hong Kong.
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Ivory and deep gray tiles create the motifs from David Rockwell's designers.
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Mr. Miller was no ivory-tower dreamer or Detroit desk jockey, though.
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Chinese nationals are still one of the biggest consumers of ivory products.
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Soro said there could be a pre-electoral crisis in Ivory Coast.
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"Traders in ivory actually want the extinction of elephants," Mr. Millar says.
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Unfortunately, American policymakers pay little price for acting as ivory tower warriors.
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The classic pale ivory cheese with fruity, citric flavors is now available.
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Four suspected cases in Ethiopia and one in Ivory Coast tested negative.
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Ivory Tower Americans seem to be forever undergoing a "crisis" of civility.
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That's one reason that wearing even antique ivory jewelry offends some people.
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The Ivory Game debuts in theaters and for streaming on Nov. 4.
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Even baby elephants have been killed for their tiny stubs of ivory.
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Ivory comes from an elephant's tusks, the equivalent of its incisor teeth.
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It says it will start by closing the legal ivory processing factories.
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FEW WEST AFRICAN countries excite investors quite as much as Ivory Coast.
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It is available in white or ivory; $21,8883, from Maggie Sottero, maggiesottero.
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Ghana and neighboring Ivory Coast supply 60 percent of the world's cocoa.
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You know, those Merchant-Ivory movies and stuff that happened in India.
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She used Ivory soap, except at Christmas, when she was given Yardley.
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They flood the sky with brilliant bursts of scarlet, emerald, and ivory.
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The chickens have come home to roost in the campus ivory tower.
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His tour of west Africa also includes Ivory Coast, Guinea and Nigeria.
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Inside, the first thing she spotted was an ivory fisherman's-knit sweater.
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Ivory Tower Surfers, like theologians, must wrestle with the problem of evil.
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Senegal's chief rival is Ivory Coast, which has a much larger economy.
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Gazing on this beautiful ivory, abhorrent feelings stir and quiver and seethe.
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According to the AFP, Russia exported nearly 80 tons of "ice ivory," as the mammoth tusks are called, in 2017, of which 80 percent went to China, where ivory is typically carved and turned into sculptures and trinkets.
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It's illegal to buy, sell, import, and export poached ivory in the US, and most countries around the world, ever since the 1990 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) ban on the international trade of ivory.
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SAN PEDRO, Ivory Coast, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Neglect by cash-strapped cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast has led to rampant disease and pest outbreaks that threaten output as the new season gets under way, growers said on Tuesday.
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But despite the seemingly obvious connection between fewer live elephants on the African savannah and a surge in the amount of ivory on the black market, there's a lot of confusion surrounding where illegal ivory comes from from.
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It was traded widely 100 years ago, but over the years, we have decided it's not something we want to deal with, and now even China, the biggest importer of ivory, has shut down its legal ivory trade.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Heavy gunfire erupted in Ivory Coast's second-largest city, Bouake, on Friday as government ministers were in talks with leaders of last week's army mutiny, witnesses and a negotiator for the disgruntled soldiers said.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Disgruntled soldiers in Ivory Coast reached an agreement with the government late on Friday resolving a dispute over bonus payments that had threatened to reignite a nationwide army mutiny, negotiators for the mutineers said.
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"They certainly would use them as food, especially certain parts like tongue or liver as a delicacy, but hunting for the ivory was more important," added Pitulko, with the ivory substituting for wood in the treeless steppe landscape.
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A week after the launch of Ivory Lane, which purported to sell vintage ivory jewellery items through an online store and social media accounts, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on Tuesday unveiled it was behind the stunt.
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Cash-strapped Zimbabwe, which has a 70 tonne ivory stockpile worth $35 million, says ivory trade is the only way to pay for protecting its elephants and to give rural communities an economic incentive for living near the animals.
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She shares the story with her mother, Ivory Mae, and with the house in New Orleans East—razed after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005—in which Ivory Mae brought up 12 children, of whom the author was the "babiest".
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Renegade soldiers in Ivory Coast on Monday rejected a proposed deal to end their mutiny over unpaid bonuses just minutes after the defense minister announced on state-owned television that an agreement had been reached.
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When pirates seized the MT Maximus, a Panamanian-flagged tanker, off the coast of Ivory Coast last year, regional navies worked together to track it over 800 nautical miles through the waters of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Benin.
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A week after the launch of Ivory Lane, which purported to sell vintage ivory jewelry items through an online store and social media accounts, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on Tuesday unveiled it was behind the stunt.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Negotiations on Saturday appeared to have averted a protracted standoff between soldiers and the government in a military revolt in Ivory Coast, a country that has prided itself on political and economic stability in recent years.
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If China simply shuts down its legal ivory trade but does little to combat the much bigger illegal trade, then the price of ivory (now about $500 a pound) will stay high, giving poachers an incentive to keep killing.
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There's just nothing that can be done to have a sustainable ivory market.
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Ivory Coast has estimated 40 percent of its cocoa comes from protected areas.
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Pygmalion returns home and makes love again to his fantasy woman's ivory form.
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Ivory Coast, Francophone West Africa's biggest economy, is the world's top cocoa grower.
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These metal and ivory phoropter testing glasses are from mid-19th century England.
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It stars Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker, Michael K. Williams, and Ivory Aquino.
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The design used shades of ivory and seafoam green to mimic jade stone.
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Kendra Scott Kayla Silver Open Ring in Ivory Mother of Pearl, $80; kendrascott.
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The department said that 217,2250 elephants were killed for their ivory in 2000.
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He said his gallery did not sell any ivory pieces at the fair.
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Ivory Coast and Ghana together represent about 60% of the world cocoa supply.
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According to WildAid, approximately 33,000 elephants are killed every year for their ivory.
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Still, this doesn't mean the Chinese have fully kicked their appetite for ivory.
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Aboud Kobena has been growing rice near Tiassalé, in Ivory Coast, since 1991.
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An Ivory Coast sculpture of a female figure from the late nineteenth century?
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South Africa's Standard Bank recently opened in Ivory Coast, its 20th African country.
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The value placed on elephant ivory has created an insatiable appetite for it.
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The last ivory-carving factories and shops (including the one in Beijing) closed.
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In contrast, there are suggestions that Ivory Coast might increase its farmgate price.
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Not surprisingly, these same brands appear to be shipping via Ivory Clasp's service.
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The show is part ivory-tickling, part audience-flirting, and all Goldblum eccentricity.
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Another tribunal in Ivory Coast granted him $15 million in the defamation case.
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In his time at the rescue facility, Ivory befriended a number of kittens.
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Make no mistake: this critique is not being made from an ivory tower.
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"When we don't have ivory, we also use beeswax and agarwood," he explains.
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Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast (CNN)The killers arrived driving a black Ford sedan.
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The illegal ivory trade has resulted in the African elephant population being decimated.
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They are applying DNA analysis to track illegally traded ivory and rhino horns.
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Cocoa arrivals at ports in Ivory Coast reached 1.469 million tonnes between Oct.
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Late last year Ivory Coast cut its armed forces by about 1,000 troops.
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"Well, as you've no doubt heard, ivory doesn't burn," he told VICE News.
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"Elephants are worth much more than ivory, or worth more alive," he says.
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The killing illustrates the peril that elephants face due to the ivory trade.
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The ivory is used mainly to make trinkets, albeit of very high value.
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In Ivory Coast the biggest retail firm is Prosuma, which is Lebanese-owned.
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"We've got to bust this market," Clinton said of the global ivory trade.
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China, the largest end-market for elephant ivory, banned domestic trade in 2017.
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Many are fleeing political persecution in countries like Ivory Coast, Gambia and Mali.
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The ban will prohibit most sales across state lines of products containing ivory.
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However, certain antiques, guns and musical instruments that contain ivory would be exempted.
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Lechaim Navy Blue Ivory Rose Cameo Ring, $16*Free shipping with $35 purchase
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Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast were once part of the same French colony.
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In some places it has dropped more than 75% due to ivory poaching.
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This was someone alleged to be the largest ivory dealer in West Africa.
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If you go to Hawaii, the stores are full of gleaming white ivory.
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The faction accounts for an estimated 8,400 of Ivory Coast's army of 24,000.
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Ivory Coast's main cocoa processors include Barry Callebaut , Olam International, Cargill and Cemoi.
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China, the largest market for elephant ivory, banned its domestic trade in 2017.
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The existing market leader in the Ivory Coast is French company Groupe Castel.
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There's Galactic, a pale pink shimmery shade, and Full Moon, an ivory shade.
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It said Ivory Coast may be on its knees, but not its people.
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But the decline will be offset by production in Ivory Coast, they added.
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Second, Powerbeats will be available in three colors: black, ivory, moss, and navy.
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"They went to China and brought back ivory, porcelain and furniture," he said.
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A self-described "village girl," who was born in Ivory Coast on Feb.
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The challenge now is convincing countries that genotyping illegal ivory is worth it.
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The ivory trafficking networks are vast and complex, extending far beyond Mali's borders.
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People have long coveted ivory for its beauty, ductility and presumed magical properties.
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Organized crime syndicates make fortunes bringing ivory to market, mostly in East Asia.
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"He was Ivory Coast's best musician," said Yves Jay Jay in somber voice.
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"Now travelers from China just buy their ivory outside of China," said Thomas.
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Over the years, poaching has become more militarized as prices for ivory soar.
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Environmentalists cheered when China announced a ban on commercial ivory sales last year.
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Inside, there's a pile of ivory pumpkins with delicate patches of greyish-green.
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Its reigning A.F.C. rushing champion, Chris Ivory, is averaging 3.8 yards a carry.
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"Ivory carving is, after all, an intangible part of cultural heritage," he said.
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Ivory Thigpen, a Democrat, in front of the South Carolina State House Monday.
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William K. Rashbaum, Derrick Bryson Taylor, Katie Benner and Danielle Ivory contributed reporting.
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But the researchers found evidence that the hunt for walrus ivory probably increased.
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Signaling its commitment, Kenya will burn 105 tonnes of seized ivory on Saturday.
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The circulation of antique ivory like yours doesn't threaten modern elephants, of course.
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Late last year, Ivory Coast had its first peaceful election in two decades.
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The ivory-colored, silk taffeta gown boasted 10,000 pearls and stunning antique lace.
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IVORY COAST PRESIDENT SAYS AGREEMENT REACHED THAT CFA FRANC WILL BE RENAMED ECO
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Ivory Coast's 12 local grinders have installed processing capacity of 720,000 tonnes annually.
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It is possible that the ivory is being trafficked along the same routes.
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William K. Rashbaum, Derrick Bryson Taylor, Katie Benner and Danielle Ivory contributed reporting.
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Still, designers train their eyes on the ivory atelier at their own peril.
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But certainly that can be isolated from the public in the ivory tower.
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She has ivory skin, beautiful chestnut-colored hair, perky breasts, and slender ankles.
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"The rising value of elephant ivory trade, illegally on the international market, has resulted in a massacre in the rainforest of Africa," Kenyatta told the invitation-only crowd on Saturday, as he called for an end to Africa's illegal ivory trade.
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The regulation restricts all ivory sales to lawfully imported antiques that are at least one century old, and to items like musical instruments and firearms that were made using less than 2105 grams — or less than half a pound — of ivory.
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Earlier this summer, headlines across the country blasted the news that the federal government was moving to ban sales of any products containing elephant ivory within the United States —strengthening an already-in-place ban on the import of elephant ivory.
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The new rules will restrict those sales to genuine antiques, like ivory statues, artwork or chiseled chess pieces, that have been lawfully imported, as well as items like musical instruments that were made using less than 200 grams of ivory.
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He's wearing a thick necklace made out of what looks like ivory beads and a tiger claw, rings on every finger, a horn hanging from a keychain on his belt, and a heavy bangle, likely made of ivory, on his wrist.
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A prominent motif in the Renaissance was a youthful couple on one side of the ivory, and a skeleton on the reverse; an example in The Ivory Mirror is grotesquely detailed with snakes and lizards swarming out of the corpse's mouth.
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Walsh suggests neutrals like nude, ivory, cream, grey or blush to "streamline" the look.
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Ivory Coast suffered months of violence following the disputed presidential elections in November 2010.
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Despite an international ban on the trade of ivory, the demand for it persists.
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Unlike cold marble, ivory is a once living material with a soft, creamy luster.
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She has been on a four-day trip through Ethiopia and the Ivory Coast.
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Now, MObama covers Vogue's December issue, clad in a gorgeous ivory Carolina Herrera gown.
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The dress is in light ivory and made in pure silk, chiffon and satin.
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Ivory is particularly coveted in Asia where it is used for carving and jewelry.
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Melania wore a Dior Haute Couture ivory silk crepe gown with silk tulle detail.
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The decision to allow these ivory hunting prizes into the U.S. stokes much controversy.
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But the ivory poaching wars, driven primarily by Asian demand, are on its doorstep.
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Then-President Daniel arap Moi torched 12 tons of ivory in the first burn.
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They have never been arrested or been investigated in any offence relating to ivory.
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The original style, called the Isabella, came out this summer in an ivory floral.
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The thoughts of the "black ivory," the "coin of Africa," had no market value.
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Among them was an ivory netsuke of a trembling hare with amber-inlaid eyes.
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Back here in Britain, the window for buying and selling antique ivory is closing.
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But what about all the other, less exceptional ivory netsuke in this family collection?
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Varda just ekes out this honor: She's older than Ivory by just eight days.
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Jumia operates in 14 African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Egypt.
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Elephants, rejoice: China is making a major effort to kick its nasty ivory habit.
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The EU is one of the largest exporters of legal ivory in the world.
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She also wore Manolo Blahnik pumps in an ivory satin with bespoke pearl detailing.
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It is also a great beginning for her new life in the Ivory Coast.
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And she looked every inch the princess bride in a flowing, ivory Lazaro dress.
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And in June, the canine unit confiscated 25 boxes of ivory bound for Malaysia.
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African elephant populations are in free-fall thanks to humanity's insatiable demand for ivory.
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A surge in poaching for ivory since 2006 is responsible for the recent decline.
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The chief executive from Ivory Coast is five months into implementing his new strategy.
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Ivory Coast, French-speaking West Africa's largest economy, shut its borders in August 2014.
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We need governments to send a clear signal that trading in ivory is abhorrent.
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That's the blunt statistic closing "The Ivory Game," Netflix's latest foray into original documentary.
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A continent away, espionage is the only way to halt the flow of ivory.
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Some, including Ivory Coast, are taking gradual steps to regulate their informal mining operations.
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Egypt, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Senegal have also placed big eurobond issues this year.
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Ivory Coast, for instance, issued a bond in 2010 in lieu of unpaid debts.
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Luckily, the rescue staff had the brilliant, compassionate idea to introduce Ebony and Ivory.
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Ebony's life was "so enriched for having a rat friend in Ivory," Levin said.
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Ivory Coast and Senegal are also seen as attractive investment destinations, property analysts say.
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In 2011, then-President Mwai Kibaki set fire to five tonnes of contraband ivory.
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False teeth were generally carved out of ivory, and set into the wooden bases.
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It featured an embellished cutout top, a black bow, and an ivory pleated skirt.
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They wore dark jeans and nice shoes, and they weren't from the Ivory Coast.
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While some 18,000 French citizens live in Ivory Coast, over 20,000 reside in Senegal.
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A decision involving ivory in Hong Kong has attracted the attention of conservationists worldwide.
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"Hong Kong has always been the dark heart of the ivory trade," said Hofford.
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Crayons, Ivory soap, confederate flag playing cards, and pencils are placed under the flag.
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In more recent years, its remaining elephant populations have been targeted by ivory poachers.
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In June, it began accepting applications from Cameroon, Senegal and Ivory Coast, among others.
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Most were Pakistanis and Afghans; a few came from Bangladesh, Ivory Coast and Congo.
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In Ivory Coast, Lebanese businesspeople complain that they are being squeezed by corrupt politicians.
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Unlike many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ivory Coast has a reliable power supply.
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To them, the ivory gown represents a marketing opportunity created by the wedding industry.
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He is working to mechanize the process of growing Arabusta in the Ivory Coast.
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Shoppers on Myntra can choose from among shades of red, black, ivory and beige.
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"It works like Lego," said UNICEF's head of communication in Ivory Coast, Sophie Chavanel.
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Wildlife experts say the street price of a kilogram of ivory is around $1,000.
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He is simply the designer probably best known outside the ivory tower of fashion.
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"It's the most beautiful ivory," she said of the material, which she calls Nuvory.
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Pemba, Mozambique (CNN)It's no secret where the ivory deals take place in Pemba.
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At the same time I did this, ivory poaching was exploding all over Africa.
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There are several states that have bans on ivory sales — New York, California, Washington.
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"It took them a few months to become popular in Ivory Coast," Aliman explains.
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Every day in Africa, approximately 96 elephants are killed for their valuable ivory tusks.
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The Ivory Coast's Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) also bans exports of small beans.
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Chad and Romania, Indonesia and Monaco, Ireland and Ivory Coast, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
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There is bone white, ivory, cream, eggshell, vanilla, opalescent white — you get the idea.
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IVORY COAST TO PROCESS 847,000 TONNES OF COCOA BEANS BY 2022- MINISTER OF INDUSTRY
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Lots included "A Guru Mask Representing Gu" from the Ivory Coast, which fetched $300,000.
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The West African nation is known for crime relating to the poached ivory trade.
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"I'm not in an ivory tower making my work," Mr. Puryear said in April.
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The response from the Ivory Coast was more in line with the report's position.
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Officials said the ivory network stretched across Gabon's nine provinces, and across its borders.
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The Fitzpatrick phototyping scale classifies complexions from Type 1 (ivory) to 6 (very dark).
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But the sale of antique ivory acquired before the 1970s had remained legal here.
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"To our surprise, the ivory was consistently coming from two areas," Dr. Wasser said.
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Until now, the oldest known human-made figures were ivory sculptures found in Germany.
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The most contentious issue up for debate is the possible trade of elephant ivory.
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IVORY COAST SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH TOYOTA TO BUILD A VEHICLE ASSEMBLY PLANT -GOVT STATEMENT
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Last week, Senegal suspended international commercial flights, and Ivory Coast shuttered nightclubs and cinemas.
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But the policies did not address the underlying drivers of the illegal ivory trade.
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She is the daughter of Kwanhee Kim and Cornelius F. Ivory of Pullman, Wash.
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China announced that it was banning commerce in ivory by the end of 2017.
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Almost all of the cotton Ivory Coast produces is exported for further processing elsewhere.
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A partial view of the dress showed an ivory colored gown with beaded embellishments.
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Ivory Coast's protected forests produce 500,000 tonnes of cocoa annually, according to official data.
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Her oven backsplash was salvaged ivory-color tile and the countertops a milky onyx.
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In the past decade, ivory poachers have slaughtered more than 0003,000 elephants and rhinos.
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An ivory curtain behind the stage was pulled back to reveal the ceremony location.
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In Ivory Coast, vast reserves of protected land have been razed for cacao production.
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Growing global supply should keep prices competitive with Ivory Coast's local supply, Long said.
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Ivory Coast's leadership at least has a strong reputation among investors to draw on.
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The marketing season in Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, started on Oct.
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Arleen stuffed a piece of clothing into the window hole and hung ivory curtains.
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Late last year, it expanded into Ivory Coast, French-speaking West Africa's largest economy.
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China says it will shut down its ivory trade by the end of 2017.
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Mr. Ammann also said that many ivory-carving factories had already moved to Vietnam.
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Last year, China agreed to enact nearly complete bans on ivory imports and exports.
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She wrote a detailed report on ivory in the tourist shops of Midtown Manhattan.
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Ivory Coast is currently harvesting its mid-crop, which runs from April to September.
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Indeed, BDS is to some extent a victim of its own ivory tower success.
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Katie Stam of Indiana accepted the 2009 Miss America crown in an ivory dress.
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At 17, I left for that quintessential ivory tower of the North: Yale University.
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Trade in ivory and pangolin is illegal in Vietnam but wildlife trafficking remains widespread.
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Netflix also presented "The Ivory Game," a Leonardo DiCaprio-produced exposé of elephant poaching.
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Trade in ivory and pangolin is illegal in Vietnam but wildlife trafficking remains widespread.
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"The illegal ivory market in Hong Kong caters almost exclusively to tourists," Harmon said.
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"There's no reason why we have to focus on ivory here," Mr. Tse said.
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He was 72 years old, and had only ever worked in the ivory shop.
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Political tensions are rising in Ivory Coast ahead of an October 2020 presidential election.
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"We're not somewhere up in the ivory tower plotting the next catastrophe," Bodenhamer said.
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Following the March attack in Ivory Coast, AQIM put out a statement claiming responsibility.
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