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Written Answers
8 MAY 1990-:
Mr. Tony Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for eign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his reply April, Official Report, column 765, if he will state the amount of ivory involved in each of the recent seizures:
186 from whom it was seized; and what was the country of origin of the ivory and the current whereabouts of the ivory together with his proposals for its disposal.
Mr. Waldegrave (holding answer 23 April 1990]: The following seizures of ivory were made by the special task force of the Customs and Excise Department in Hong Kong between 1 June 1989 and 22 March 1990:
Seized from
Country of
Export
Quantity (kg)
58.9 raw ivory
Kim Ki Woo
15
raw ivory
Au Kin Choi
Korea China
(powder)
8-5
raw ivory
Tsai Shin Steng
11-7
worked ivory
Abandoned by Choi
Don-soo
Taiwan Korea
7.55 worked ivory
Lau Ming Hei
Thailand
0-2
worked ivory
2.9
719 raw ivory
Yue Hwa Chinese
Product Emporium Lid.
Japan
Taiwan Japan
worked ivory
Lam Kin Put
Kwong Fat Cheung
Ivory and Mahjong
700
raw ivory
Pei Lei Lai Kai
Singapore
15-5
mammoth ivory
Lee Chor Mui
Japan
2-3
worked ivory
Andrew Stephen Yuen
Thailand
100
worked ivory
Sun Hung Ngai Trading
USA
Company
55
worked ivory
Wong Wing Shing
Spain
4
worked ivory
Unclaimed baggage
France
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26.3
worked ivory
Art of Sea Ivory Company
China
3-1
worked ivory
Liu Shih Haiao
Taiwan
3-8
worked ivory
Shih Shia Loon
Taiwan
1-3
worked ivory
Fang Tsu Chick
Thailand
2.5
worked ivory
Chang Lin Kue: Chuo
Taiwan
17.5
worked ivory
Left by Transit Passenger
Thailand
Written Answers
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THESE RELATE TO SEIZURES
Mr. Waldegrave (holding answer 23 April 1990]: We do not propose to take a view on whether to apply isotope analysis to ivory stocks in Hong Kong until the technique has been properly evaluated. As my hon. Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, stated in his reply of 13 November to the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell), the proposals concerning this technique were not discussed in any of the formal sessions at the CITES conference in October 1989. But we will study any information which may be forthcoming about these techniques in consultation with our scientific advisers.
Endangered Species
Mr. Tony Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his reply of 5 April. Official Report, column 764, if he will give details of the items which led to 92 prosecutions being initiated by the Hong Kong authorities.
Mr. Waldegrave (holding answer 23 April 1990]: Ninety-two prosecutions were initiated by the Hong Kong authorities in the second half of 1989 as a result of confiscation of the following items:
Item
Monkey
Slow Loris
Musk Deer
Amount
2 hd
8 hd
5 pc pod
10.2 g grain
Ivory:
Raw ivory Worked ivory
769-9 kg 123.62 kg
Rhino Horn
20 kg
The confiscated ivory is kept in the Hong Kong Government stores. The Hong Kong Government have no plans at present to dispose of the confiscated items.
Mr. Tony Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his reply of 5 April. Official Report, column 765, if he will state (a) the period covered from 26 February during which 35 kg of ivory was exported from Hong Kong, (b) how much ivory has been exported since that date; and to which countries it was exported.
Mr. Waldegrave [holding answer 23 April 1990]: The period covered was from 26 February to 30 March 1990. The Hong Kong CITES management authority has not been notified of any ivory exports since 30 March 1990.
Mr. Tony Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is going to happen to the 116 tonnes of ivory currently held in Hong Kong without CITES documentation.
Mr. Waldegrave [holding answer 23 April 1990]: The owners may continue to keep the ivory under possession licence or to dispose of it locally. But export licences will not be issued for any exports.
Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to apply isotope analysis to ivory stocks in Hong Kong to ascertain their place of origin.
Felidas (cat family):
(a) Stuffed specimen
(b) Live
I hd 2 hd
(c) Skins
226 pc
Pangolin:
(a) Live
(b) Scale
2 hd
(c) Meat
068 kg 5.4 kg
(d) Meat and scale
1-4 kg and 20 pc
Cetacean spp Meat
0-4 kg
Owl:
(a) Dead (b) Live
Birds of prey:
I hd
6 hd
(a) Stuffed specimen (b) Live
3 hd
2 hd
64 hd
11 hd
Parrots
Yellow Tortoise
Sea turtle:
(a) Stuffed specimen
13 hd
(b) Egg
40 pc
(c) Sheil
1 pc
Lizards:
(a) Live (b) Skins
1 hd
8.231 pc
Crocodile Meat
0-79 kg
11 CWAY I938 214.