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A new Thailand
law requires ivory owners to register their pieces with the government in order
to distinguish the amount of locally sourced ivory versus ivory from Africa in The Kingdom, reports The Nation.
Nipon Chotibal, the director-general of Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife
and Plant Conservation (DNP), said the ivory registration will make it easier
for the DNP to crackdown the illegal smuggling of African ivory into Thailand.
The new law took effect on
January 22 and restricts individuals’ ivory possession to either two pieces of ivory, or two ivory necklaces
or four ivory bracelets, and allows one household to contain only up to 12
ivory pieces, reports The Nation.
Furthermore, Chotibal said
that under the new law, these ivory pieces can only be inherited, not sold,
traded, given away or transferred.
Chaninat and Leeds’ attorneys are experts on Thailandinheritance laws and have been assisting clients with probate proceedings in Thailand since 1997.
Owners of locally sourced ivory must register all their
elephant tusk pieces by April 21 and owners of African ivory will be able to
register within 90 days starting March 14.
For further details, read the full story here.
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