Philippines begins destroying elephant tusks — in an attempt to stop poaching of the animal for luxury items like ivory.

The law was originally announced as part of a $2.6 billion plan for the Philippines’ wildlife — but now, many conservationists are concerned that it may prove ineffective and cause the country to lose its position as the world’s top exporter of ivory, leading it to be unable to compete with South Africa or China.

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The country said in June that it had been dealing with elephant poaching by destroying or disfiguring the tusks, as well as killing a number of the animals for their ivory.

It took some time for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to finally take action and bring the killings to an end, despite the fact the killings have been called the largest crime against the environment since World War II.

Duterte’s crackdown has been credited by experts for reducing the number of illegal tusks by 90 percent. However, some conservationists say that despite the successful destruction, some animals remain and are still being poached, as the authorities allow farmers to use illegal tusks to make their own tusks that are sold on the black market for around $1 each.

“There’s still thousands of elephants t코인 카지노hat are in the market on the street, in garbage bags that are being thrown away in garbage, for their tusks. This is a violation of their human rights,” Lorna Yap, executive director of the Wildlife Foundation, a wildlife rights organization, told AFP.

The move to kill all ivory by 2020 has been praised by many conservationists, but not everyone is happy with the move, which they say will cause an even more destructive and dangerous crisis.

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“It’s a shame that there are animals still being killed because of a national program we had put together,” said former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. “The end goal of that program was to protect people from poachin실시간카지노g, not to destroy elephants.”

The United Nations World Wildlife Fund’s director general for the Asia Pacific, Luis Esquivel, wrote an opinion piece for Reuters Monday in which he criticized the Philippines’ new law.

“The Philippines may have been forced to act to reduce the poaching crisis in 2014-2015, but that does not mean the law itself can work and that the program for reducing the illegal trade in ivory has gone 파라오 카지노far too far, said Ezequivel.

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