Ivory Trade

I recently attended an interesting but alarming International Fund for Animal Welfare meeting on the Ivory Trade at Westminster.
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The UK and Europe’s legal trade in ivory antiques is far too easily used as cover for trade in new ivory – thus adding to the demand for ivory that sees 55 elephants poached each day in Africa. Earlier this summer I raised this with the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, who confirmed the government was committed to an all-out ban – but we need action sooner rather than later. (https://goo.gl/PhtyYK)

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