In a recent study on the online merchandise of ivory inward Japan, environmental conservation grouping Traffic concluded that operators of e-commerce websites are non doing plenty to cleft downwards on illegal sales of items made from elephant tusks, urging the authorities to strengthen restrictions.
While praising the autonomous measures taken past times online retailers, the grouping recommended that operators watch banning ivory merchandise completely.
“As a CITES (Convention on International Trade inward Endangered Species of Wild Fauna as well as Flora) party, Nippon has an obligation to fulfill these requirements effectively to ensure that domestic merchandise inward ivory does non contribute to poaching or to illegal trade,” it said inward the study published Tuesday.
The study likewise disclosed the results of inquiry conducted inward May as well as June on ivory sales made via online platforms including Rakuten Ichiba as well as Yahoo Shopping, auction website Yahoo Auctions, as well as customer-to-customer markets Mercari as well as Rakuma.
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The Nippon Times
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