The UK Needs The Ivory Ban Now

The international trade in so called ‘modern ivory’ has been banned since 1989. That makes it illegal to sell any ivory item internationally that is older than from 1947. But, right here in the UK, each and every day hundreds and possibly thousands of ivory items are traded - they can be sold and purchased without a single formal document required to prove their age.Every day people are trading pieces of dead elephant. But not just dead elephants, elephants that were slaughtered spec