Rhino horn trade in China: An analysis of the art and antiques market

Gao, Yufang; Stoner, Kelly J.; Lee, Andy T. L.; Clark, Susan G.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.08.001

Cited by 49 publications

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“…West African forest ivory generally made up a small portion of the tusks in all seizures analyzed and, based on its short lag time, seemed to be added opportunistically at the time of shipment. Factors related to the dynamics of the illegal network of trade or perhaps to changes in the demand for ivory (29,30) may have also contributed to these trends.…”

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Radiocarbon dating of seized ivory confirms rapid decline in African elephant populations and provides insight into illegal trade

Cerling

Barnette

Chesson

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Carbon-14 measurements on 231 elephant ivory specimens from 14 large ivory seizures (≥0.5 ton) made between 2002 and 2014 show that most ivory (ca. 90%) was derived from animals that had died less than 3 y before ivory was confiscated. This indicates that the assumption of recent elephant death for mortality estimates of African elephants is correct: Very little “old” ivory is included in large ivory shipments from Africa. We found only one specimen of the 231 analyzed to have a lag time longer than 6 y. Patterns of trade differ by regions: East African ivory, based on genetic assignments of geographic origin, has a much higher fraction of “rapid” transit than ivory originating in the Tridom region of Cameroon–Gabon–Congo. Carbon-14 is an important tool in understanding patterns of movement of illegal wildlife products.

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Radiocarbon dating of seized ivory confirms rapid decline in African elephant populations and provides insight into illegal trade

Cerling

Barnette

Chesson

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…and C.O., for the United Kingdom and United States samples) (Geertzen & Bunt 2009; Gao et al. ). Results were accepted only for Kappa values ≥0.7.…”

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“…and X.G., for Chinese, Hong Kong, and Taiwan samples and A.B. and C.O., for the United Kingdom and United States samples) (Geertzen & Bunt 2009;Gao et al 2016). Results were accepted only for Kappa values ࣙ0.7.…”

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Reach and messages of the world's largest ivory burn

Braczkowski

Holden

O’Bryan

et al. 2018

Conservation Biology

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Recent increases in ivory poaching have depressed African elephant populations. Successful enforcement has led to ivory stockpiling. Stockpile destruction is becoming increasingly popular, and most destruction has occurred in the last 5 years. Ivory destruction is intended to send a strong message against ivory consumption, both in promoting a taboo on ivory use and catalyzing policy change. However, there has been no effort to establish the distribution and extent of media reporting on ivory destruction events globally. We analyzed media coverage of the largest ivory destruction event in history (Kenya, 30 April 2016) across 11 nation states connected to ivory trade. We used an online-media crawling tool to search online media outlets and subjected 5 of the largest print newspapers (by circulation) in 5 nations of interest to content analysis. Most online news on the ivory burn came from the United States (81% of 1944 articles), whereas most of the print news articles came from Kenya (61% of 157 articles). Eighty-six to 97% of all online articles reported the burn as a positive conservation action, whereas 4-50% discussed ivory burning as having a negative impact on elephant conservation. Most articles discussed law enforcement and trade bans as effective for elephant conservation. There was more relative search interest globally in the 2016 Kenyan ivory burn than any other burn in 5 years. Ours is the first attempt to track the reach of media coverage relative to an ivory burn and provides a case study in tracking the effects of a conservation-marketing event.

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“…The demand for rhinoceros horn is driven in large part by its use in Asian medicinal products . Beyond medicinal products, rhinoceros horn is also valued as a raw material for artistic carvings (e.g., libation cups, jewelry, figurines) and, during the last decade, there has been high demand for rhinoceros horn art in some parts of the world . Such items can be valued well over USD 100,000 .…”

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“…Beyond medicinal products, rhinoceros horn is also valued as a raw material for artistic carvings (e.g., libation cups, jewelry, figurines) and, during the last decade, there has been high demand for rhinoceros horn art in some parts of the world . Such items can be valued well over USD 100,000 . The prohibition in rhinoceros trade by CITES means that any international trade to meet this demand is illegal (note exception above).…”

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confidence: 99%