USA’s Secret Ivory Black Market Second Largest in the World
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Crisis of conscience may be closer than it appears. Image from exfordy
I’ve often been watching some Discovery Channel documentary on the horrors that poaching can visit upon elephant populations in the wild, and thought to myself “I am so glad that we don’t support that sort of barbaric activity here.”
Regular readers of Environmental Graffiti will recognize that I was, as I usually am, totally, completely wrong.
If the
Of course, if you’re like me: what the nice policeman issuing you a speeding ticket politely calls a “curbside lawyer”, you may be protesting at this moment that it’s quite illegal to traffic in ivory in the U.S. That’s true. However, there are loopholes in the law, and they make the rest of the code difficult to enforce. Ivory tusks from
How bad is this problem? The market is recognizing that the
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