Update: Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s (TMG) Response to JTEF and EIA Recommendations re: Ivory Subsidies

This document provides an update on how Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) has responded to the information and recommendations contained in a 2024 briefing submitted by EIA and Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund (JTEF) to Tokyo’s Governor Yuriko Koike on subsidies being provided to ivory industry stakeholders. Subsidies provided by TMG were funding efforts to increase demand for elephant ivory and work towards opening international trade in ivory, directly contradicting efforts to reform Tokyo’s domestic elephant ivory trade and international recommendations.