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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hong Kong's traders, retailers and carvers -- about 3,000 people in all -- are already suffering from the U.S., European and Japanese bans. Kwong Fat Cheung Ivory once employed 100 carvers. Now there are five, all old men, who at night can be found sitting around a table eating a...
Until the early 1980s, the flow of undocumented ivory into Japan went virtually unchecked. The country was awash in bogus documents used to launder ivory smuggled out of Africa. International protests grew, and Japan's traders began to realize that the extinction of the elephant would eventually put them out...
Until now, the ivory trail has flourished under the less than watchful eye of the CITES secretariat. In 1985 when the organization announced its plan to register all tusks as part of an ivory-control system, conservationists hoped the illegal trade would be curbed. But the deals that CITES officials...
So the future of the trade depends in large part on Hong Kong and Japan, the big consumers. Officials of both places have expressed deep concern at the catastrophic losses to Africa's herds and have vowed to place the preservation of the elephant ahead of the interests of the...
Despite the firepower lined up on AMR's side, Trump has several factors in his favor. For one, an estimated 80% of AMR is owned by institutional investors, who generally show less loyalty to management than do individual shareholders. For another, AMR has not paid dividends to its shareholders since...