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Known for its medical and aesthetic properties, elephant ivory and tusks are selling lucratively. (Image via Al Jazeera)
Relieving! Yahoo! Japan to end ivory trade on its website
TOKYO - On Wednesday (28/8), the biggest e-commerce platform in Japan, Yahoo! Japan, announced that it would restrict any ivory sales on its website. The action was due to several complaints from animal conservationists and having acknowledged that these ivory bought from the website was smuggled to other countries; thus, violating international cross-border trade rules.Yahoo! Japan joined Rakuten and Mercari who had first announced the ban in 2017. The Japanese government itself also restricted international cross-border ivory trade in 1989, however still allowing domestic ivory trade through licensed merchants.
The decision came after consultation with Traffic and its sister group, World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF). Yahoo! Japan spokesperson confirmed the news, having received complaints from Chinese authorities.
Throughout the Middle East and Asia, elephant tusk and ivory are known to be a lucrative business. It is used as either material for furniture, tools, ornaments. It is most known for its medical properties. In Japan, ivory is the material for “Hanko” stamps.
Since China restricted ivory trade in 2017, Japan single-handedly became the world's largest ivory market. Traffic tabulated 4,414 ivory & 35 tusks worth of US$380,000 (US$2,000 per piece) were sold in June-July period in 2018.
There seem to be loopholes that allow poachers and smugglers to do illegal trading from both China and Japan.
However, since Yahoo! Japan has proclaimed the decision, many animal conservationists saw this as a good beginning. Ahead of 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan, WWF hopes that the decision would be the beginning of the end of ivory trading in Japan; hence, allowing tourists to visit Japan as the country free of ivory trading activities.
Source: https://japantoday.com/category/business/yahoo-japan-to-end-ivory-trade-on-its-websites
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