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Then there's the elephant in the room: jobs. The U.S.'s unemployment rate, which stood at 9.7% in February, is expected to hit at least 10.3% before peaking later this year, according to Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody's Economy.com. Says Brinkmann: "The fundamental driver in demand...
"Today's conference occurred to raise questions on Mr. Sikes' actions last Monday but does not go far enough as to clear the air on the what-ifs that sit like an elephant in the middle of [Toyota's] story," noted James Bell, a senior analyst with Kelly Blue Book...
But the treatment didn't work. From 1997 to 2007, following those stockpile sales, poaching and seizures of illegal ivory began to rise. In Tanzania alone, the percentage of elephant mortality attributed to poaching rose from 22% in 2003 to 62% in 2009. The wholesale price of high-quality ivory...
In an article in the March 11 edition of Science, an assortment of wildlife experts from around world - including several African nations - argue that science simply does not support any additional ivory sales. Over the past 30 years African elephants have declined to about 35% of their original numbers, and...
The good news is that at the upcoming CITES summit, nations will have the chance to once more put a stop to the elephant trade. CITES is the rare international treaty with real teeth - countries that decide to defy it can face serious trade sanctions. As the experts in this...