Despite fifa coins a ban on the international trade in ivory, poachinganimals for their ivory has been on the rise. "We have beentracking the increase of elephant poaching with concern, saidKevin Bewick, head of Anti-Poaching Intelligence Group Southern Africa to Discovery News.
Intelligence from the [Far East] reports that there is adefinite trade of ivory for small arms, and also funds forliberation movements, much the same as happened with UNITA(National Union for the Total Independence of Angola when it wasat war with MPLA Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola.