Ericka Ceballos
Other projects
25 Jun 2009
Monitoring and Reduction of Illegal Internet Trade in Protected Animal Species in Ecuador
12 Aug 2010
Assessment of the E-Trade Scale on Capuchin Monkeys and Other Primates, in Latin America
To assess the scale of the illegal e-trade on elephant ivory in Africa and Asia, to raise awareness of the problem and get a proper law enforcement on this kind of e-trade.
Ivory.
CATCA will monitor the internet trade of elephant ivory in some of these Asian countries: (China, India, Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates), and in Africa in some of these countries: (Morocco, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe). We are interested in these countries because each one of them has a different level of internet development, demography, economy and geographic location.
Speaking to Chinese media about how the e-trade is killing the African elephants. © Erika Ceballos
For this investigation we are training bilingual people (e.g. Hindi-English, Afrikaans-English, Chinese-English, etc.), to monitor the internet trade of elephant ivory in their own countries. When we have all the data collected in excel charts, we will proceed to analyze the data by country, and then we will add all the data collected from of all the countries where the research has been done to make a general assessment. The monitorings will be done twice in all the countries chosen; repeating the monitoring 6 months after the first research takes place. When we have all the information, all the data of the two investigations will be analysed to get the coefficient of the e-trade of elephant ivory in each country and comparing the results from all the countries. All this information will be then organized and use it to write a report that will be printed and also posted online in our website.
The link to our website page and the printed report will be send out to the management and enforcement authorities working on CITES in Africa and Asia, Interpol and also to the internet trade service providers and NGO’s. The media will also be contacted about it. Some reports will also be sent out to some universities and important libraries. ore ease text. Than the yellow part would be:
During this Conference we would use this information as a tool to lobby against the proposals that could threaten African elephants. The project results can specially provide arguments against the suggestions to reduce the level of protection of some elephant populations and against the proposals to renew the ivory trade by allowing the sale of elephant ivory from some stocks.