In a promising new report, Teetering on the Brink: Japan’s online ivory trade, TRAFFIC finds that trade in ivory has dropped by as much as 100% this year on Japan’s largest online ivory trading platform, Yahoo Japan. It’s a highly welcome development considering the dangerous state of the nation’s ivory market revealed in 2017, but this resolve must become nation-wide and reinforced by government actions if Japan is to put an end to its role in the international ivory trade. [2]
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/teetering-brink-japan%E2%80%99s-online-ivory-trade
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/teetering on the brink.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/traffic
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/elephant
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/illegal-trade
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife-trade
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/japan