{"id":4861,"date":"2019-08-23T10:23:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T07:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"pressure-mounting-on-eu-to-end-ivory-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/23\/pressure-mounting-on-eu-to-end-ivory-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Mounting On EU To End Ivory Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By AFP<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid growing calls for an\noutright ban, the European Union is coming under increasing pressure to help\nprotect African elephants by ending the trade of ivory within its borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poaching has decimated the world\nelephant population, which slumped in Africa from several million at the turn\nof the 19th Century to around 400,000 in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to conservation group\nWWF, as much as 60 percent of all elephant deaths can be blamed on poaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The David Shepherd Wildlife\nFoundation, which campaigns against the ivory trade, says that from 2007-2014, 144,000\nelephants were killed across Africa\u2014the equivalent of one death every 15\nminutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The international trade of ivory\nwas officially banned in 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States outlawed\ndomestic trade in 2016, with China following suit a year later. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/world\/Pressure-mounting-on-EU-to-end-ivory-trade\/4552918-5243846-hcysgez\/index.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP Amid growing calls for an outright ban, the European Union is coming under increasing pressure to help protect African elephants by ending the trade of ivory within its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4862,"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-4861","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\/4861","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=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}