FROM WWF
UK
WWF World Wide Fund
For Nature
Our Ref : SL/aw
Date: 16 July 1990
Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher, MP,
Prime Minister,
10 Downing Street,
LONDON, SW1.
01.01. 1908
BLUTUS
WWF United Kingdom
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Godalming, Surrey GU7 1XR Telephone (0483) 426444 Telex: 859602
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Dear Prime Minister,
On 17 July the six month ivory reservation for Hong Kong
Hong Kong comes to an end. A letter to our Hong Kong office from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Hong Kong, copy attached, indicates that the Hong Kong Government plans to continue to allow exports, without a permit, of pieces of ivory weighing
kilos less than 5
This personal as
effects.
would be dr Since the UK 18 violation of the rules of the CITES Convention. the Contracting Party to CITES on behalf of Hong Kong, the UK has a responsibility to ensure that llong Kong complies fully with the Convention.
We
statistics.
The
are, naturally, greatly concerned by what is likely to happen to the 469 tonnes of ivory apparently
apparently still in Hong Kong according to official
recent seizures by confirms our Japanese customs officers of ivory from long Kong fears that controls on ivory shipments from Hong Kong are insufficient staff to make the inadequate and that there are ivory registration system in Hong Kong fully effective. Continued illegal trade is clearly а very high risk, and we would, therefore, urge you
persuade Hong Kong to take the following measures :
1.
to
Withdraw its proposal to allow exports without a permit
pieces of
of
than ivory weighing less
5 kilos as personal
effects.
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