{"id":12416,"date":"2015-03-23T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T13:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/?p=12416"},"modified":"2016-04-07T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T09:01:04","slug":"41-porte-paroles-des-elephants-dafrique-et-dasie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/41-porte-paroles-des-elephants-dafrique-et-dasie\/","title":{"rendered":"41 spokespeople of the elephants of Africa and Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on behalf of 41 international and European Non-Governmental Organizations, Robin des Bois is sending <a href=\"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Common-letter-raw-ivory-export-EU.pdf\">the attached letter<\/a> to the European commissioner in charge of the environment and to all the UE ministers in charge of the trafficking of species threatened by extinction.<\/p>\n<p>This letter asks the European Union and all the member states to suspend all exportation of raw ivory. It turns out that the unilateral decisions taken by the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden and France are in fact ineffective insofar as elephants tusks sold at auctions can eventually leave the European Union from a country that has not made an analogous decision. The example of Cannes Ench\u00e8res in France (<a href=\"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/ivoire-vers-la-chine-la-filiere-belge\/\">see the press release \u201cIvory to China: the Belgian Network\u201d that was published on March 4, 2015<\/a>) is the sad proof of this.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on behalf of 41 international and European Non-Governmental Organizations, Robin des Bois is sending the attached letter to the European commissioner in charge of the environment and to all the UE ministers in charge of the trafficking of species threatened by extinction. This letter asks the European Union and all the member states to suspend all exportation of raw ivory. It turns out that the unilateral decisions taken by the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden and France are in fact ineffective insofar as elephants tusks sold at auctions can eventually leave the European Union from a country that has not made an analogous decision. The example of Cannes Ench\u00e8res in France (see the press release \u201cIvory to China: the Belgian Network\u201d that was published on March 4, 2015) is the sad proof of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants-et-ivoires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}