The new regulations come out of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which says the move will further limit the market for traffickers of illegal ivory. They say the problem is that smugglers currently can evade detection and bring illegal ivory into the U.S. Once here, it's impossible for people to know whether that billiard cue or pocket knife they're buying was made with sanctioned or illegal ivory.
Research by wildlife protection groups has found that the U.S. is one of the largest markets for illegal ivory. So under the new system, officials hope that the near-total ban on sales will largely shut down the U.S. as a buyer of the illegal ivory.
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So this means that anyone who owns or keeps any family heirloom or antique to display is now an immediate federal criminal?
ReplyDeleteCan you say,"ex post facto"?
Need to ban all the Made in China crapola - to include FIREWORKS!
ReplyDeleteFireworks are you kidding?nothing like some mortars and Roman candles
DeleteGuess you don't wear clothes or use a cell phone.. silly Americans
ReplyDeleteThis is what is wrong with the USA, hardly anything made here any more. If we got rid of everything not made here, there wouldn't be much in the house and you probably wouldn't have any clothes to wear. Vote Trump.
ReplyDeleteHUH? We have elephant herds here? Just what are you commenters talking about????
ReplyDeleteHope this will help same Many of these
ReplyDeletemajestic creatures!