For those using Ivory in their designs

[PTsideshow]

Better make sure you have the documentation on its age etc. with the items and a copy for your self. As there is the beginnings of a new push to tighten control and sales on the internet.
Online ivory trade threatens Africa's elephants | Fox News

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[maxwell_smart007]

As well there should be. I fully support the ban on ivory!

 

[Haynie]

Sounds good to me.

 

[76winger]

It's a shame it has to go so far as a ban on the sale of it, and even then there will still be people who find ways to sell through black markets. If only the hunters and sellers could limit themselves to what is found from animal remains instead of killing live animals forit.

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[monark88]

Couldn't agree with you more, but when there are big bucks to be made..........

Russ

 

[ttpenman]

I always wondered if there could be some way to use a permanent dye that would make the tusks useless to poachers. Don't know if the elephants would mind pink or purple tusks!! Once the poachers realized no one would pay for dyed ivory maybe they would stop killing the elephants.

Just like the idiots who fish for sharks just to cut off their fins. Just so some rich SOB in China can have a $300 bowl of soup!!

Jeff in northern Wisconsin

 

[KBs Pensnmore]

Don't see why they can't cut off the tusks, like they do with the Rhino's horn.
Kryn

 

[PTsideshow]

The assorted governments are part of the problem with the poached material. As it has been a long standing practice for most countries that confiscate tusks or other material banned for sale other than by native peoples.
They hold it till the price rises or they need money then they hold an auction. Which adds to the problem about the documentation, since the amount sold can be in the multiple tons or ten's of tons.
The ivory and ebony wood I have used in the past was harvested form scrap piano's. Pre 1950's it is small in size but for pens and jewelery it works well.
With the advent of digital/electronic piano's the market for player and old piano's is just about Zero.
Most times they can't even be given away. Unless the people are looking for a happy link to their past.
Use mammoth ivory as there are estimated to be thousands of tons of it in Russia. Or the vegetable ivory from the palm nuts, which was used in the past as a cheaper substitute for ivory in the manufacture of buttons, thimbles and other small items. Since it is just about identical in make up and workability to real ivory.
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[PTsideshow]

Don't see why they can't cut off the tusks, like they do with the Rhino's horn.
Kryn

They could and do when they are in captivity. In the wild the problem becomes the herd as they generally don't travel alone. They would have to be tranquilized for the procedure, plus the fact that they are weapons that the elephants use to protect themselves from predators!
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