Endangered Species Protection and CITES Overview
An overview of global efforts to protect endangered species through the CITES treaty and national enforcement. It explains appendices I II III, who enforces rules in the United States, and urges avoiding products from endangered animals while supporting conservation groups and research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Customs
National Marine Fisheries Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Endangered African Elephants Face Declining Numbers
A decade of poaching and habitat loss halves Africa's elephants from over 3 million to about 600 000. Ivory trade bans aim to help, but elephants still need long term support as rural poverty and crop conflicts endanger herds.
Ivory trade and elephant herd dynamics described
The article discusses how elephants are killed for ivory tusks and how ivory has been used for centuries in statues jewelry piano keys and other items. It notes that younger elephants and females live in herds led by the oldest female and explains hunters target older elephants with bigger tusks.
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India
Jaguar
Africa
U.S
Elephant
Ivory
Worldlife Fund
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
National Zoo
Iam
Asonian Insoru