played a significant deterrent. But many businesses still visit the place
International Fund for Animal Welfare (hereinafter referred to as It is reported that
IFAW Asia Chief Representative Ge Rui 600,000 or so.
Rampant illegal trade
IFAW September to October last year in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and Fuzhou, Putian County, and near the sale of ivory products, 158 dealerships and factories for one month to monitor the market sample.
Monitoring found 158 ivory visited dealerships and factories, only 57 are included in the operation of the State Forestry Administration approved the list of ivory products in legitimate businesses. Distribution of illegal ivory in 101 enterprises, is nearly 2 times the legal business.
Those legitimate companies, 59.6% of the state enterprises can not strictly enforce the ivory processing and distribution business of the relevant provisions, resulting in
IFAW Asia Special Assistant to Chief Representative, said He Yong, if there is a legitimate enterprise engaged in the illegal operations of the illegal trade in illegal acts within the calculation, monitoring in this illegal trade is nearly six times the legal trade.
The problem of illegal illegal operations in the 34 legitimate companies, two located in Guangdong and Fujian, are legal in China ivory import raw materials from Africa, the mouth of the new legal ivory approved processing plant, one of the access to their legal status before repeatedly been found selling illegal ivory products. Although the state announced in a clear division of ivory products, plants and distribution points, but the survey still found that plants in the production, it is also directly accept sales orders, make sales without a license.
This allows authorities to the marketing chain from production and processing of control loopholes. A legitimate factory in Fujian, said, only because the state approved its annual production of 120 kg of raw materials, so there is no collection can only provide evidence of the illegal ivory products to meet market demand, which in the industry is almost a common phenomenon.
The survey found that 62.5% (20) of the illegal part of the legal distribution point even the vast majority of products can not provide the appropriate evidence collection; 43.7% (14) were visited dealerships advises consumers not to evidence collection, evidence collection because the handle time-consuming, it takes six months to a year Even distribution of points that were illegal ivory sales collection card to buy them, as a legal cover for illegal ivory trade.
The survey found that a company called And monitoring find it at least six stores, all actual visits to the shops and there is some or all of the products did not permit collection problems.
Ivory raw material prices doubled three to four times
Illegal ivory trade in the four cities visited prevalent, but the problem is Beijing’s most prominent cities.
Survey statistics to Beijing a total of 66 illegal point of sale, accounting for four of illegal monitoring to 65.3% of total stores.
In addition to being widespread concern of the Beijing Panjiayuan, Liulichang illegal ivory and other regional sales outlets, the investigators also detected in the government law enforcement and public attention than those of weak Shilihe region (Bo Po Oriental Antique Area A, Antique Tian Cheng, Block B, as the representatives of international and Graceland) there are a lot of the illegal ivory trade, accounting for Beijing illegal distribution point for 44% of the total, which many of them openly declared that the wholesale point of sale for the ivory shops, a factory with material, Guangdong and Fuzhou, the sale of processed products.
Beijing Antique Shilihe process within the multi-column field on the express the sale of ivory products.
In Shanghai, the wildlife protection as the government efforts to increase publicity and enforcement inspection work carried out, some of the illegal trade began to go underground. Although the shops do not see any ivory surface, but contacted by phone, or can go to the store to see the goods.
Guangzhou has always been the main wholesale market of illegal ivory, but this monitoring, the city and the surrounding Hualin jade jewelry shops selling ivory to reduce the number than in previous years. Nevertheless, the monitoring staff that regular customers or to sell the stores to get African mammoth tooth ivory.
In Fujian, the recent one ivory smugglers were arrested, played a significant deterrent. But many businesses still visit the place, scattered pieces of teeth, said the stock, temporarily hiding up, so the limelight in the past and then sell. Although the monitoring to see the Antique ivory and rhino horn posted prohibiting the sale of products, posters, traders heard that law enforcement check, but these posters posted in Antique, the public still found the illegal sale of ivory products.
Smuggling of illegal ivory sales points, directly or indirectly the main source of raw materials or products, luggage or mail entrainment is widely used in the form of smuggling. This is described in the same visit, the illegal traders. 44% did not check the ivory and products from Africa to South Africa, Zimbabwe and other countries the most. 30% of the total ivory and products in Guangdong and Fujian were seized. Investigators found a large number of market monitoring in the illegal sale of ivory products are mostly from Guangdong and Fujian.
Investigators visited 13 outlets claim to the sale of some of the ivory came from abroad, which contains two legitimate distribution points. These products include cut into small pieces of ivory from Africa back to the raw materials smuggled from the United States
According to reports, in recent years, the market prices are rising in ivory, ivory China’s current market price of raw materials to China from legal ivory auction in Africa before the price of raw materials turned over three or four times, the market is still in short supply. Investigators interviewed multiple vendors, said the price per kilogram of raw material from the early 2011′s 10,000 yuan up to the present 15,000 to 20,000 yuan.
In our ivory from Africa to the auction before, in 2006 the price of raw ivory on the market per kg 3500 to 4400 yuan. A few years time, the new legal ivory raw materials into China, the market price of raw materials turned over three to four times. Products more expensive than in previous years the price of many. However, high prices have not cooled the market demand, because ivory is considered commodities, its
Guangzhou, a legal ivory carving factory director, said in an interview with reporters: the price of 4 million.
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