Ivory

• This is supported by the addition of a new International Casualty team within Specialty and the appointment of Graeme Ivory as Director of International Casualty.
• These developments signal Markel's continued growth in the Wholesale business and commitment to Specialty classes, to best serve its key business partners.
• Hillier and Ivory will be based at Markel's London office and report to Andrew McMellin, Managing Director of Wholesale at Markel International.
• I'm also thrilled to welcome Graeme to the team as we set up our International Casualty capability."

• In a bid to protect animals from poaching, the UK government has strengthened legal protections for five more species.
• Trading in ivory from hippos, walruses, narwhals, killer whales and sperm whales is set to be prohibited under the extended provisions of the Ivory Act 2018.
• The newly protected species make up a smaller proportion of the ivory trafficking trade than elephants.
• We think the effectiveness of the Ivory Act’s legal extensions may be hindered by several barriers.

1. Global disparity in wildlife law

• The global disparity between wildlife trade laws enables the continued circulation of illegally obtained ivory, often laundered alongside trade in legitimate ivory.
• The impact on ivory trafficking of an extended ban is likely to remain limited without a global consensus on wildlife laws.
• This remains the case despite international law setting out the basis for wildlife protection.

2. Policing

• Other studies consistently show that wildlife crime enforcement suffers from inadequate resources, and is not considered a primary focus within mainstream policing in the UK.
• Although the UK has a dedicated National Police Wildlife Crime Unit, training in wildlife crime is not included in the compulsory training regime for police officers.

3. Criminal organisations

• These criminal networks employ various techniques to facilitate their activities, including sophisticated smuggling methods, bribery, corruption and exploiting porous borders.
• The participation of criminal organisations contributes to a lack of understanding about the true scale of the ivory trade and the different species involved.

4. Ivory identification

• UK authorities enforcing the strengthened ban on ivory trade face the additional hurdle of accurately identifying ivory and ivory products.
• The situation will be further complicated by the fact that some existing ivory markets, such as those involving warthogs, are not covered by the extended Ivory Act.
• These gaps in protection again provide avenues for traffickers to exploit, by hiding illegal ivory among legal ivory trade.

• MIAMI, Oct. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Prime Matter Labs , a leading contract manufacturer of beauty and personal care products, announced that Jessica Khuat has been named as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
• Im thrilled to be joining Prime Matter Labs as the company has such a strong foundation from its decades of experience in the beauty and personal care products space, said Jessica Khuat.
• Prior to Prime Matter Labs, Jessica spent more than 15 years working across the finance organizations of Heineken and Procter & Gamble.
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• WHAT: The Tide Loads of Hope Mobile Laundry Unit, powered by Matthew 25: Ministries, has been deployed to support relief and recovery efforts in the wake of the deadly flooding throughout eastern Kentucky.
• The mobile laundry vehicle will begin services in Hazard, KY at the Walmart Supercenter on Daniel Boone Plz.
• Residents can bring clothes (up to two loads per household) to be washed, dried and folded free of charge.
• Created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Tide Loads of Hope is a mobile laundromat that can complete hundreds of loads of laundry per day.