{"id":4338,"date":"2019-08-05T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"kenya-launches-ivory-trade-is-a-rip-off-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/05\/kenya-launches-ivory-trade-is-a-rip-off-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Launches \u201cIvory Trade is a Rip Off\u201d Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By UN environment,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a fresh effort to raise awareness and curb the illegal\ntrade in ivory, Kenya launched a new wildlife conservation campaign dubbed\n\u201cIvory Trade is a Rip Off\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign calls for the listing of the African\nElephant in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered\nSpecies of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) \u2013 which includes species threatened\nwith extinction \u2013 at the Convention\u2019s upcoming&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cites.org\/eng\/cop\/index.php\">18th Conference\nof the Parties<\/a>&nbsp;(CoP18) following the dwindling numbers of\nelephants as a result of poaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is supported by 31 other African\nstates under the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanelephantcoalition.org\/\">African Elephant Coalition<\/a>.\n\nThe launch, which took place at\nNairobi\u2019s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, was attended by the Director of\nUN Environment\u2019s Regional Office for Africa, Juliette Biao, the country\u2019s\nCabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife, Najib Balala, and representatives\nfrom Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) and Kenya\nAirways\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/kenya-launches-ivory-trade-rip-campaign\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN environment, In a fresh effort to raise awareness and curb the illegal trade in ivory, Kenya launched a new wildlife conservation campaign dubbed \u201cIvory Trade is a Rip&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}