African nations clash over sales of ivory
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Poaching is up in central Africa, but elephant herds are growing in the south. Nations are arguing over whether to lift the ban on ivory sales.
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That exquisite little carved-ivory elephant for sale on eBay could be an illegal piece of African elephant tusk.
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On a continent that absorbs 75 percent of the world&#39;s UN peacekeeping forces and budget, Ivory Coast&#39;s violent downward spiral threatens hard-won gains against West Africa&#39;s devastating civil wars of the 1990s.
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Booming demand in China is the biggest driver of the illegal ivory market and there is no clear link between allowing regulated legal trade and a rise in black market supplies, a report to a U.N. conference said on Monday.
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At a bend in a tributary of the Congo River, dirt-poor villagers pan for the shiny stones that have proved as elusive as they are rare -- diamonds. Hundreds stake claims hoping to strike it rich in this, the fourth-largest diamond-producing country in the world. But what these villagers may not know is that diamonds, according to experts, have indirectly fueled some of Africa's dirtiest wars.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki tried to defuse a crisis in Ivory Coast on Tuesday which has triggered days of rioting, put French troops on the streets and paralyzed cocoa exports in the world's top grower.
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The conflict in Ivory Coast is in large part a contest for the country's most valuable asset: the land on which cocoa is grown.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki  tried to defuse a crisis in Ivory Coast on Tuesday which has  triggered days of rioting, put French troops on the streets and  paralyzed cocoa exports in the world's top grower.
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A U.N. environmental agency on Thursday postponed a plan to allow three southern African states to make a one-off sale of 60 tonnes of elephant ivory.
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study being reported Tuesday estimates that as many as 23,000 animals were slaughtered last...
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African countries have announced a continent-wide plan to slash ivory trading in their domestic markets.
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African leaders struggled on Tuesday to avoid a damaging split over moves to unite the continent under one federal government.
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The African Union called on the international community to take tougher action in Ivory Coast and Congo, two of the continent's biggest crises that risk destabilizing their wider regions.
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By ARTHUR MAX THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The agency that oversees international trade involving rare animals approved on Saturday the sale of 60 tons of ivory to Japan despite fears it could lead to increased poaching of endangered elephants.
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World cocoa prices rose from intraday lows, but exports from the Ivory Coast, the key global supplier, remain on hold after mob violence and military clashes paralyze business in the West African country, traders said on Tuesday.
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The substitution of mammoth ivory for elephant ivory presents an unusual example of how conservation of one limited resource could  lead to the uncontrolled, and perhaps catastrophic, exploitation of another.
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afrol News, 11 October - Two proposals regarding the international ivory trade today failed to secure a two-thirds majority at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) conference in Bangkok.