{"id":644638,"date":"2019-06-09T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T10:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div> <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/09104833-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"mammoth ivory trade\" title=\"mammoth ivory trade\"\/><\/div><p>Israel wants tougher regulations"},"modified":"2019-06-09T10:48:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T10:48:46","slug":"israeli-proposes-tougher-regulations-on-mammoth-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/09\/israeli-proposes-tougher-regulations-on-mammoth-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli proposes tougher regulations on mammoth trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/09104833-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"mammoth ivory trade\" title=\"mammoth ivory trade\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Israel wants tougher regulations to save mammoths from extinction.<\/p>\n<p>Trade in mammoth ivory has grown exponentially as a legal alternative to elephant ivory. And that\u2019s why Israel is sounding the alarm bell now. But not everyone is up for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to say that I am against this initiative (to list Woolly mammoth as an endangered species) because the mammoth tusk has probably completely replaced the elephant tusk on the international market and it will help to save elephants from extinction\u201d, said Valery Plotnikov, Chief Researcher of the Mammoth Fauna Study Department of the Academy of Sciences of Yakutia.<\/p>\n<p>Africa\u2019s elephant population has plummeted from more than 3 million in 1900 to an estimated 415,000 today.<\/p>\n<p>Legal domestic ivory markets are shrinking but loopholes in the trade of mammoth ivory mean elephants are still at risk.<\/p>\n<p>A recent assessment by Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), confirmed that poaching remains a threaten to the survival of the African elephant.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3E3E3E\"><i>Get more stories like this on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/todayng\" style=\"color: #ED1C24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel wants tougher regulations to save mammoths from extinction. Trade in mammoth ivory has grown exponentially as a legal alternative to elephant ivory. And that\u2019s why Israel is sounding the alarm bell now. But not everyone is up for it. \u201cI have to say that I am against this initiative (to list Woolly mammoth as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[525,1388,1385,1387,1386,482],"class_list":["post-644638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-israeli","tag-mammoth","tag-proposes","tag-regulations","tag-tougher","tag-trade"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Israeli proposes tougher regulations on mammoth trade - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/09\/israeli-proposes-tougher-regulations-on-mammoth-trade\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Israeli proposes tougher regulations on mammoth trade - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Israel wants tougher regulations to save mammoths from extinction. 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