Ivory

facing extinction; mostly because of China 's market forcing to the price of ivory through the roof, to the price of that was once reserved for the one of the most valuable commodity, gold. Unlike most "middle" class citizens around the world, China 's middle class citizens tend to have a strong purchasing power. Due to the booming of China 's middle class, consumer demands are at it speak, and the desire for ivory is at it 's all time high. Because recently acquired ivory can be sold legally in China, and due to its popularity, about 80 percent of the middle class citizens in China now owns at least one or two pieces on this…

African Ivory Trade Throughout the course of history there has remained one constant, humans are never satisfied. Since the dawn of human history humans have had this desire to crave more and want better. The idea of never being satisfied has led to many accomplishments for the human race, from the expansion of empires such as the Greek and Roman empires, to technological advances in medicine that have pro longed life, and the expansion of knowledge through books and curiosity. All have come…

The poaching of elephants and the ivory trade has become an extremely pressing and controversial issue over the past few years, most noticeably in Botswana perspectives have been altered and bias has been made. This issue has sparked unrest and controversy all around the world. Protests began in Botswana concerning it, dividing the environmentalist from the poachers. From the 1970’s to the late 1980’s, elephant populations were slaughtered due to the legal regulated trade in ivory, which…

The ivory trade is the illegal and often lucrative trade in the ivory tusks of mostly African elephants. Elephant poaching is at the extent where the world has seen its worst in a decade, and capture of ivory is at its highest. It is one of the primary reasons why the elephant population, especially African elephants, is declining at a fast rate. This trade has now currently led to the endangerment of African elephants, resulting in the ban of hunting African elephants, and the selling of ivory.…

Elephant ivory has been in demand from Victorian England and Asia for decorative purposes (Marston et al., 190). According to the International Union of Conservation of Nature, ivory trade is three times as large as it was in 1998. Most ivory is traded from Africa to Asia (Fisher, 2013). The connections made between countries discloses a roadmap of the needs and demands of people globally. Even though globalization reflects the political, economic and environmental linkages between countries, it…

killing elephants in Africa and Asia to use their ivory for objects such as piano keys and billiard balls. In 1989, an international ban was put on the ivory trade. The ban made it legal to trade in one’s own country, but illegal to export the ivory to other countries. Even with the ban, tourists buy ivory trinkets when visiting Africa and Asia, and some people believe it would be okay to export some ivory to help the economy in Africa. Ivory poaching should be stopped due to animal cruelty,…

Ivory trafficking is an immense problem that is threatening the lives of the diminishing African elephant population. In an attempt to raise awareness of the crisis, the documentary was filmed undercover for sixteen months in the heart of the problem. Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani’s documentary “The Ivory Game” expresses the concern of elephants possibly becoming extinct due to poaching for their ivory tusks. The film delves into well-known poachers and their hotspots in an attempt to arrest…

Ivory is a hard creamy-white substance, typically used to make jewelry and other ornaments, that composes elephant tusks. Due to the high price of ivory killing elephants for their tusks has become quite a lucrative business which has resulted in the African elephant being brought to the brink of extinction. The prohibitionists dominate the ivory trade debate, however is a ban on ivory trade really all that beneficial. I argue that an ivory trade ban is in fact counterintuitive and brings with…

subsided for a brief while. However, around the same time, China and Vietnam saw an enormous increase in the demand for the ivory and the rhino horn, which, among other factors, largely contributed to the current ongoing crisis (Baldus). At present, the major driving forces of the problem include a high demand for ivory in the Asian countries, widespread poverty, corruption, unemployment, and medicinal purposes (Kideghesho 370), and the consequences spread over various social, economic, and…

Elephant Poaching In the early 20th century there were 3-5 million elephants throughout Africa, India, and Asia, but numbers are rapidly dropping leaving only 472,000-640,000 left in the wild. So what happened? Like most problems, you can find a way to trace it back to humans and in this case it is almost entirely our fault. Because of excessive poaching, agricultural expansion, and many other factors humans are slowly killing off these beautiful and sophic creatures. China is the leading…