{"id":6499,"date":"2011-12-29T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T11:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/record-number-of-ivory-seizures-in-2011-wwf\/"},"modified":"2011-12-29T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T11:03:41","slug":"record-number-of-ivory-seizures-in-2011-wwf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/record-number-of-ivory-seizures-in-2011-wwf\/","title":{"rendered":"Record number of ivory seizures in 2011-WWF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Worst year for large seizures in over 2 decades<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Data suggests rise in poaching of Africa elephants<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Asian demand, migrant networks fueling trade<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Dec 29 (Reuters) &#8211; A record number of<br \/>\nlarge scale ivory seizures will be recorded globally in 2011,<br \/>\npointing to a surge in elephant poaching in Africa to meet Asian<br \/>\ndemand for tusks for use in jewelry and ornaments, a monitoring<br \/>\ngroup said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>TRAFFIC, a conservation group which tracks trends in<br \/>\nwildlife trading, said there have been at least 13 large-scale<br \/>\nseizures of over 800 kg (2,000 pounds) of ivory in 2011, more<br \/>\nthan double the 6 recorded in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A conservative estimate of the weight of ivory seized in<br \/>\nthe 13 largest seizures in 2011 puts the figure at more than 23<br \/>\ntonnes, a figure that probably represents some 2,500 elephants,<br \/>\npossibly more,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe-based Tom Milliken, who manages TRAFFIC&#8217;s Elephant<br \/>\nTrade Information System, said it was the worst year for large<br \/>\nseizures he had seen in the over two decades he has been running<br \/>\nthe database.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said the poaching and illegal trade were consequences of<br \/>\nChina&#8217;s investment drive into Africa to secure the mineral and<br \/>\nenergy resources it needs to fuel its economic growth.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Worst year for large seizures in over 2 decades * Data suggests rise in poaching of Africa elephants * Asian demand, migrant networks fueling trade By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Dec 29 (Reuters) &#8211; A record number of large scale ivory seizures will be recorded globally in 2011, pointing to a surge in elephant poaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}