280:"It is with deep shock & horror that we learn this morning of the death of long time conservationist, Esmond Bradley Martin, whom police say died in suspicious circumstances at his home in Karen, Nairobi. Esmond led investigations into ivory & rhino horn trafficking. Esmond was at the forefront of exposing the scale of ivory markets in USA, Congo, Nigeria, Angola, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Laos and recently Myanmar. He always collaborated with
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trafficking there. Local police reports deemed this murder a “robbery gone wrong.” However, nothing was stolen. Martin’s research actively threatened the illicit organizations that profited from wildlife trafficking; therefore his effective muckraking likely made him a target to these criminal organizations, though the case is not closed as of April 2019.
146:, Martin was considered a world-renowned expert in the ivory trade and rhinoceros horn trade. He had been a special envoy of the United Nations for the conservation of rhinoceros. Militant for a reduction in the demand for ivory to dry up the market, he participated notably in the stop of rhinoceros horn trade to China in 1993 and
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In the 1990s he spent a year undercover posing as an ivory dealer, collecting data on how the price of ivory grew from $ 20 per kilogram that the poachers received, to almost $ 600 per kilogram in China at the end of the trade line. Between that is a dense line of middlemen earning major profits off
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Other contributions Martin made to this field included: highlighting increased demand for rhino horn in Yemen in 2008, showing the drop in
Japanese demand for ivory in 2010, detailing a burgeoning ivory trade in Hong Kong in 2011, and explaining the reduction in rhino poaching in Nepal in 2013. His
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An anecdotal achievement by Martin was debunking the myth that rhino horn was used by Asian buyers for sexual purposes, which is incorrect. Rather, it was primary used for traditional medicine such as lowering fever, making dagger handles in Yemen, and more recently, as a party drug when mixed with
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February 4, 2018, Martin was found dead with a stab wound to his neck at his home in Nairobi. He was 76 years old. He was survived by his wife and longtime research partner Chryssee Martin. Martin had recently returned from a trip to Myanmar and was writing a report on his findings about ivory
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Martin’s research primarily focused on curbing the demand of these products. He was instrumental in stopping the rhinoceros horn trade in China in 1993, and then the ivory trade in China in 2017. While other leaders were more tepid about making these items illegal, Martin stood for a total ban of
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From the late 1970s until 2018, Martin traveled extensively took great risk to gather data surrounding the ivory trade. He would often go deep undercover, meticulously documenting and photographing illegal sales of ivory and rhino horn, all in secret to the surrounding merchants. Sharply dressed,
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Martin would hide in plain sight as an affluent shopper for illicit ivory and rhino horn, and went undercover to gain information about the illegal wildlife trade. Through this persona, he was able to gain intel surrounding the practices of these traders.
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and worked with many of us generously sharing his findings & views. Esmond was a global authority on ivory and rhino horn trafficking. We send our deepest condolences to his wife. RIP Esmond, pachyderms have lost a great .
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of extinction. In the undercover process, Martin exposed an
Italian diplomat (who smuggled ivory by hiding it in dog meat) and an Indonesian ambassador among other high ranking officials corruptly involved in the trade.
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posthumously awarded Martin the
Distinguished Brooksian Award, in conjunction with what would have been his 60th high school reunion. Martin's former roommate Tony Milbank accepted the award on his behalf.
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Cargoes of the East: The Ports, Trade, and
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Rhino
Exploitation: The Trade in Rhino Products in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma, Japan, and South Korea (1983), World Wildlife Fund
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cocaine. While it is still a widespread myth that rhino horn has health benefits, the reality is that rhino horn is made of
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Hong Kong’s Ivory: More Items for sale than any other city in the world (2015) (co-authored with Lucy Vigne)
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Esmond was born in New York City on April 17, 1941. He was the great-grandson of 19th century steel magnate
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Decline in the Legal Ivory Trade in China in
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The Ivory Trade of Laos: Now the
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New War in South East Asia (1994) (co-authored with Daniel Stiles, published by Swara Magazine)
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Vietnam’s illegal Ivory trade threatens Africa’s Elephants (2016) (co-authored with Lucy Vigne)
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and graduated in 1959. He then earned a bachelor of science degree in geography from the
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final published research documented how Laos’s and Vietnam’s ivory markets are booming.
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No Oasis: The Egyptian Ivory Trade in 2005 (2005) (co-authored with Tom Milliken)
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The Ivory Markets of Africa (2000) (co-authored with Daniel Stiles, published by
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A Quantitative Assessment of the Arab Slave Trade of East Africa (1977)
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The Ivory Markets of East Asia (2003) (co-authored with Daniel Stiles)
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The Ivory Markets of Europe (2005) (co-authored with Daniel Stiles)
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Ivory Markets in the USA (2008) (co-authored with Daniel Stiles)
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1014:"Vietnam's illegal Ivory trade threatens Africa's Elephants"
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Quest for the Past: An Historical Guide to Lamu, Kenya 1970
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Religion, Royalty, and Rhino Conservation in Nepal (1985)
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On A Knife’s Edge: Rhinoceros Horn Trade in Yemen (1997)
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Run Rhino Run, 1983 (co-authored with Chryssee Martin)
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University of Liverpool - Doctor of Philosophy (1970)
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The International Trade in Rhinoceros Products, 1979
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in 1964, followed by a Ph.D. in philosophy from the
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