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William Atkins
Saturday, 13 March 2010 03:23
Enforcement of an international ivory ban has reduced the numbers of elephants killed each year. However, any type of approval to lift that ban (even temporarily) will, in all likelihood, spur more killing of elephants for their ivory.
An international ban on selling ivory was instituted in 1989. It has been temporarily lifted at several times during this twenty-year-plus period.
Of course, there are many sides to this issue of ivory poaching, elephant killing, illegal black market activities, and the temporary lifting of international bans on legal ivory sales.
On one hand, proponents of legal ivory sales say that periodic legal sales of ivory are ultimately for the benefit of the conservation of elephants.
Opponents say that legal ivory sales will only increase the demand for ivory and, thus, increase the number of elephants killed for their ivory.
What do you think?
What I think is key to this issue is human nature, greed, and money. Poachers who kill elephants for their ivory only care about monetary profit. They don’t care about the elephants.
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