Doesn't this just keep ivory rare...?
Think they will evolve within a decade? Because at the current rate that is how long they have got.
Yeah, the fact that this stash would make dent is a fantasy that exists only in some posters heads. Ivory is illegal for a reason, and that reason is not because it was a sustainable market when the taps were on.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
A pointless gesture that further impoverishes a backwater nation. At a minimum, they should sell the ivory while regulating the industry and animal populations. However, that would require a massive effort from the international, national, and local communities, and while the international community would be on board with the effort, the national and local communities... well... umm... it's Africa.
You can eradicate poaching by legalizing and regulating the industry while maintaining and monitoring the market. Furthermore, to combat poaching, the simple solution is to educate the local populations while executing the poachers.
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Why is he a jackass for wanting an ivory statue? The demand will always be there, so we're better off with cultivation, monitoring, and management versus illegality. Honestly, this is the same nonsensical argument that's used with marijuana and other illicit narcotics (not to mention Prohibition Era policies).
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They had a segment on the radio that listed the conservative value at $350,000,000.
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I'll be honest, I came into this thread under the notion that the topic title was "Kanye stages biggest ivory burning worth 70 millions!"
You can't really hunt elephants like you could hunt a deer or bison.
Elephants have a gestation period of two years, then you'll have to wait fifteen more years for an elephant to barely reach maturity.
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We're talking Kenya not Malawi.
If the government sold the ivory then they would create a market for it. You can't build a market off a threatened animal, especially one that takes decades to mature.
That's what I think also, what a waste. Its not like the poachers will stop killing the elephants, so at least preserve what they already died for needlessly.
Heres an idea give poachers the death penalty for illegally killing big game and it will stop overnight.
I could never understand elephant poaching. Elephants are such amazing and majestic creatures, and people are killing them off by the thousands to get their teeth? Ivory has no practical value and it isn't even shiny, it's only appeal is that having to rip it from an elephant carcass makes it seem rare and special in some way. And even if it was a useful material, what do poachers gain from hunting elephants to extinction rather than adopting sustainable practices?
The sad thing is though, the poaching happens faster than what the elephants can reproduce. Elephants have an almost 2 year pregnancy (21-22 months).
This is a really good read on the life cycle of an elephant.
http://www.elephantsforever.co.za/life-cycle.html
They might be ditching the tusks to survive, but overall, they could be almost hunted down to extinction by then. I realize the females (and some males) don't have tusks, but this doesn't run in every family of elephants.
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It can be very shiny. In fact, it's often referred to as "white gold".
Yes, I draw my own avatars.
Most of the ivory is bought by China to make dick medicine. The amount of art made of ivory is a lot less compared to the quantities used for mambo-jambo-unga-bunga imaginary medicine.
Apparently ivory can be artificially grown in a lab just by using a few Dentine cells from elephant bone. Sounds good to me.
I can't decide if I'm more mad that its a beautiful bracelet, or that I Also think its a beautiful bracelet, in spite of how much I love elephants. Don't misunderstand me, I'd never contribute to those horrors, its just that some times like this you can see the slippery slope that leads to awful stuff. One person: 'Oh, if I buy this one thing, it won't make that big a difference, that could have just been some little end-piece they already had sitting around...'