Thailand faces pressure to ban ivory trade

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Ahead of CITES, pressure to ban Thai ivory trade

Published: 2 Mar 2013 at 17.36
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You can buy it freely in urban markets and rural stalls set up at elephant shows in Thailand every day: ivory, carved into everything from intricate statuettes of the Hindu deity Ganesh for more than US$1,000 apiece, to tiny tusk pendants worth less than $10.

World Wildlife Fund regional representative Stuart Chapman meets Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday in Bangkok, where he pressed for a ban on the country's ivory trade. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

But the thriving trade, conservationists say, is helping fuel the unprecedented slaughter of elephants thousands of kilometres away in Africa, where the largest land mammals on earth are facing their worst poaching epidemic in decades.

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Discussion 5 : 03 Mar 2013 at 05.295
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Unfortunately the PM can't act on this, there could be "an influential person" involved.
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Discussion 4 : 02 Mar 2013 at 22.074
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Come on Yingluck, ban trading of this commodity of death. You shouldn't even need permission from the fugitive to do something that's so obviously the right thing to do.
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Discussion 3 : 02 Mar 2013 at 21.123
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Empty dust bins make the most noise or is it lip service.
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Discussion 2 : 02 Mar 2013 at 20.182
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I dont understand how someone in 2013 could possibly buy ivory .Its very well known that it is banned in most countries .
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Discussion 1 : 02 Mar 2013 at 20.101
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The tragic problem here is that Thailand is not the least bit concerned about anything connected to the environment be it flora or fauna. Facts is facts. Let Mizzzzzzzzzzzz PM wiggle her useless way out of that one because her puppet master could care less.
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