Does Destroying Ivory Save Elephants? Experts Weigh In

The owners of an antiques store inwards Manhattan, New York, pleaded guilty on July 26 for trying to sell $4.5 1000000 worth of illegal elephant ivoryfrom a dorsum room.

On Thursday, some of that confiscated Manhattan ivory together with to a greater extent than volition live crushed inwards Central Park equally role of a world upshot organized past times the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation together with diverse wild fauna groups. They promise that the crushing of nearly 2 tons of ivory tusks, jewelry, together with trinkets volition deter people from buying “white gold” together with Pb to the eventual close downward of the illegal trade.

At to the lowest degree 140,000 elephants convey been lost to the ivory merchandise together with habitat loss inwards less than a decade, a survey conducted inwards 2016 showed. International commercial sales of elephant ivory convey been banned since 1990, together with some countries convey begun closing downward domestic sales of legal ivory equally well. China, the principal marketplace for ivory, announced plans to stage out domestic sales by 2018, together with the U.S., some other big ivory hub, limited sales of the material last year. Some United States of America states—notably California together with New York—have banned sales too. (Read about how Washington, D.C., has instruct a novel ivory hotspot).

This latest ivory devastation follows the crushing of roughly a ton of ivory 2015 inwards Manhattan’s Times Square and half dozen tons inwards Denver inwards 2013. More than a dozen nations, including China, France, together with Kenya, which burned 105 tons concluding year, convey also destroyed their confiscated ivory.

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