{"id":50595,"date":"2013-11-14T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=50595"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:58:08","slug":"u-s-to-destroy-tons-of-elephant-ivory-offers-1-million-bounty-on-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=50595","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to destroy tons of elephant ivory; offers $1 million bounty on traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/elephant-ivory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-50592\" alt=\"\u0531\u0544\u0546,\u0583\u0572\u0578\u057d\u056f\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/elephant-ivory.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/elephant-ivory.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/elephant-ivory-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/elephant-ivory-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The message is simple: stop wildlife trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>And to highlight it, the United States will destroy tons of elephant ivory it has seized over the years &#8212; and pay out $1 million to make sure it doesn&#8217;t happen again.<\/p>\n<p>Hours before the destruction of the stockpile in Colorado Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the reward money to help dismantle elephant and rhino trafficking syndicates.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time the United States has offered such a reward, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Profits from animal trafficking are between $8 billion to $10 billion a year, most of which are used to fund narcotics and human trafficking, according to Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial ivory trade was banned in the United States in 1989. The crushing of the six-ton stockpile of elephant ivory near Denver<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/le\/pdf\/Ivory-Crush-Q-and-A.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> is the first time the U.S<\/a>. has destroyed such large quantities.<\/p>\n<p>The illegal ivory trade has doubled worldwide since 2007, with the United States the second-largest retail market for illegally acquired ivory after China.<\/p>\n<p>Other nations including the Philippines, Kenya and Gabon have destroyed large quantities of ivory in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The message is simple: stop wildlife trafficking. And to highlight it, the United States&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":50592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[3813,3812],"class_list":["post-50595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","tag-elephant-ivory","tag-united-states","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}