Perspective
Oct. 24, 2014
It's time to end the ivory trade in California
When California legislators reconvene, they should move swiftly to join New York and New Jersey and ban ivory sales. It's the right thing to do. By Anne Nasser
Illegal poaching is estimated to account for 65 percent of the deaths of African elephants, a threatened species whose population has been decimated by over 75 percent in the past few decades due to wildlife trafficking and a growing demand for ivory. In the international markets for elephant ivory, the U.S. is second only to China. In China, where bears are farmed for their bile and tigers are bred in squalid facilities for their parts, not...
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