Japan’s legal ivory market is booming -- and fueling brutal poaching that
kills thousands of gentle elephants every year.

But for the first time in a generation, Japanese lawmakers are fully
reviewing their ivory law and considering a total ban -- and global public
pressure can tip the scale.

They’re drafting the laws right now -- let’s make our demand clear:

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John,

Every year, tens of thousands of elephants are butchered for their tusks
despite a global ivory ban -- and Japan’s massive domestic market remains
one of the main drivers.

But we have a once-in-a-generation chance to change that: Japan is fully
reviewing its ivory laws for the first time in 30 years!

Public pressure has already pushed Japanese companies like Rakuten, Aeon,
and Yahoo! Japan to ban ivory sales -- now’s our moment to make the
government shut it down altogether.

They’re drafting the laws now, and with the global endangered species
summit coming up in just weeks, it’s our chance to put them in the
spotlight. Add your name to protect these gentle giants:

[ [link removed] ]Tell Japan: shut down the ivory market, save elephant lives.

Japan’s domestic ivory market is massive -- and it’s all legal. On top of
millions of antique ivory items allowed in shops, the Government has an
‘official stockpile’ of more than 16,000 tusks and 80 tons of cut ivory
pieces. That’s thousands of elephants’ lives lost just for ivory sitting
in storage.

Every tusk and item sold legally increases the risk that illegal ivory
slips through -- investigation after investigation has shown that the
presence of ‘legal’ ivory in Japan creates loopholes that fuel trafficking
and poaching.

But after years of small adjustments, Japanese lawmakers are finally doing
a full review. If they act decisively, they could shut down one of the
world’s largest legal ivory markets -- and save thousands of elephants
from torture. 

The time to act is now -- the review is almost complete, and environment
ministries from around the world will be meeting in just weeks for their
annual summit, putting Japan in the spotlight. Add your name and share
with animal lovers everywhere:

[ [link removed] ]Tell Japan: shut down the ivory market, save elephant lives.

We know our pressure works -- just last year, we forced global tourism
giant TUI to introduce a ban on shark-fin transportation on their planes.
If we focus our attention on Japan today, we could win again -- and ensure
elephants will still be roaming the planet for generations to come.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Ildem, Danny and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Japan, Ivory, and CITES SC78, Environmental Investigation Agency, 19.
February 2025.
[ [link removed] ]The Dynamics of the Illegal Ivory Trade and the Need for Stronger
Global Governance, Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, 01.
May 2022.

 

 

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