Stop the Ivory Ban

10/05/2022

https://www.mahohboh.org/the-elephants-of-kruger-national-park-are-way-in-excess-of-the-sustainable-elephant-carrying-capacity-of-their-habitat-whats-to-be-done-about-it/

We made a documentary film about it. And now we have had a reaction: SANPARKS, presumably with Minister Creecy’s approval has arranged for the Humane Society International (HSI South Africa) to sta…

06/26/2019

Botswana wants to open hunting on elephants. It’s been 5 years . Of course they are catching a lot of flack, but the economy is in trouble, and photo safaris cannot take up the slack. Plus they animals are decimating crops. For the sustenance farmer they are a nightmare.

The move has been criticized by conservationists but lauded by locals who say wild elephants are ruining their livelihoods

05/13/2019

This is an interesting article, in addition to China buying the elephants, Botswana wants to open to legal hunts and “Zimbabwe’s carrying capacity is 55,000 elephants but now we have 85,000," , yet the wildlife groups are pushing C.I.T.I.E.S. to place the mammoth the endangered list ( yes, I am aware they are already extinct) to be able to regulate those sales because the world is in danger of the loosing elephants forever. Hmmm.....

If Zimbabwe can't sell ivory, it'll sell the whole elephant instead.

08/30/2018

Here is a case of the law gone bad. It makes no sense and saves nothing. As a side note, if it were to be sold only in the US this item would have qualified under the exemptions of the ivory ban law. I am assuming that the seller thought (mistakenly) that it would sell to an over seas buyer and so could be exported with faux ivory, which is correct. However , by removing the ivory he negated the worth of the furniture and it didn't sell at all.


A Thomas Chippendale masterpiece was stripped of its ivory and fitted with a plastic substitute before being offered for sale at Christie’s, in a case described by antiques experts as “pure vandalism”.
The 18th century commode became the most expensive piece of English furniture ever sold when it last appeared at auction in 1991, fetching a record £935,000.
But when it was offered at Christie’s in London again last month with an estimate of £3-5 million, the US seller first replaced the inlaid ivory with man-made ‘ivorine’ in order to comply with a US ban on ivory trading, the Antiques Trade Gazette reported. It failed to sell.

08/06/2018

A 123 yr. old piano is defaced in the name of saving elephants.

A British university professor who relocated to New Zealand was horrified to discover the ivory keys on his antique piano will be buried by the country’s Department of Conservation (DoC).

07/15/2018

Botswana's people are sick of the price they paid for political correctness when they banned elephant hunting, and now they want to bring it back.

Botswana, home to the world's largest elephant population, may lift a ban on hunting for sport in the face of what the government says is growing conflict between humans and wildlife, a move sure to provoke protest from animal welfare groups. Conservationists estimate the land-locked southern Africa...

05/28/2018

The best, most succinct article I have read about effectively protecting elephants

Ending Trophy Hunting of Elephants: Is this a Conservation Success? By Brendan Moyle. Jan 23 Bugs van Heerden Following a wave of popular outrage, the US government appears to be backtracking on the decision to allow the import elephant hunting trophies. Nonetheless, despite the support of celebriti...

03/23/2018

Are photographic safaris enough to sustain Africa’s preserves? “Timbavati photographic tourism numbers had peaked, the revenue brought into the reserve by 24,000 photographic tourists was less than one third of the revenue brought in by only 46 hunters for the same year. It’s not hard to imagine that 24,000 tourists have a much larger carbon, and resource use, footprint than 46 hunters, not to mention the amount of activity within the reserve required to support all of those photographic tourists –“. Read more here....

Could the new Timbavati Conservation Levy model become a benchmark for sustainable funding of private reserves?

03/20/2018

This was totally preventable. Southern White Rhinos faced a very similar fate 100 years ago, and southern African countries adopted sustainable use to save them. Private land owners welcomed SWRs on their land, and now there are over 20,000 SWRs, while Northern White Rhinos based in countries that prohibit sustainable use are effectively extinct.

By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - The world's last male northern white rhino has died, the Kenyan conservancy taking care of it said, leaving only two females of its subspecies alive in the world although scientists still hope they can save it from extinction. Ol Pejeta Conservancy said in

03/12/2018

Submit a quick message supporting sustainable use to the International Wildlife Conservation Council today by emailing [email protected]. Comments received today will be considered at their first meeting on March 16.

01/14/2018

Poaching is a distraction. The challenge for elephant populations is managing land use when human populations are exploding.

Elephant Densities in Africa. By Douglas Wise. Jan 9 Bugs van Heerden If not predated by man, elephant populations can grow at the rate of approximately 5.5%/annum, doubling every 13 years until the approach of maximum carrying capacity forced by food limitation. Man is the keystone predator of elep...