Disguising Elephant Ivory as Other Materials in the Online Trade

IF 1.7 4区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION Tropical Conservation Science Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1177/1940082920974604
Sofia Venturini, D. Roberts
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Abstract

Despite efforts of law enforcement, tech companies and other stakeholders, the illegal online trade in wildlife products continues to increase. A particular problem in tackling this online illicit trade is the misdescription of item materials, making the search for internationally CITES regulated materials, such as elephant ivory, challenging. We investigated the issue of misrepresentation of materials in item descriptions by studying the trade in netsuke, carved objects, attached to the cord of the kimono, originally from 17th century Japan, that are often made of elephant ivory. The study, conducted on the online marketplace, eBay, in the United Kingdom, shows that elephant ivory is still sold in spite of eBay’s policy on ivory. While the netsuke trade is small, elephant ivory was most frequently described as cow bone. Our results also indicated that, among the items identified as elephant ivory, only a small fraction were actually detected and removed by eBay. To discourage the sale of ivory items, eBay should increase its efforts to implement its policy banning the trade in ivory. Further, eBay could consider additional restrictions on the range of words that can be used by the vendors in all of the item listing fields.
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将象牙伪装成其他物品进行网上交易
尽管执法部门、科技公司和其他利益相关者做出了努力,野生动物产品的非法在线贸易仍在继续增加。处理这种网上非法贸易的一个特殊问题是物品材料的错误描述,这使得寻找国际CITES管制的材料(如象牙)具有挑战性。我们通过研究绑在和服绳子上的雕刻物品netsuke的贸易,调查了物品描述中材料的虚假陈述问题,netsuke最初来自17世纪的日本,通常由象牙制成。这项在英国在线市场eBay上进行的研究表明,尽管eBay对象牙有政策,但象牙仍在出售。虽然netsuke贸易规模很小,但象牙最常被描述为牛骨。我们的研究结果还表明,在被认定为象牙的物品中,只有一小部分被eBay发现并移除。为了阻止象牙制品的销售,eBay应该加大力度执行其禁止象牙贸易的政策。此外,eBay可以考虑对供应商在所有商品列表字段中可以使用的单词范围进行额外限制。
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Tropical Conservation Science
Tropical Conservation Science BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION-
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3.60
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5.90%
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16
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>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Tropical Conservation Science is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research papers and state-of-the-art reviews of broad interest to the field of conservation of tropical forests and of other tropical ecosystems.
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