Nice. There are a couple pdfs I couldn't look into because I'm mobile but wow. The way things are set up, elephants are definantly gonna go extinct mostly everywhere unless the chinese do hold up on their end and things stabilize a bit over the next 15 years. Reading this though is a little eye opening.
Alot going to asia but specifically china @ 90%. India getting its bid and middle east too though. What is weird to me is why collect and store ivory if you aren't going to sell it? The articles say they are using them to track the dealers but they already know who they are. Who are the mysterious helicopters touching down to collect from the lra is the only secret supposedly.
The preservation groups like c.i.t.e.s is another thing though. Banning the trade of it only made things worse in the end, so why not just regulate it some how? The demand for it isn't going anywhere obviously.
There is a pic and article of some asian country where they are destroying seized ivory too by way of what looks like a wood chiper..waste of materials imo. Should of shipped it back. It doesn't make sense to me to restrict something that is going to accumulate naturally, could be building the economy with that ivory. There's this too.
'Murica has its hand in the pot on the low apparently.
@ the invention of the kalashnikov. I hate guns