Surprisingly, I just heard about this yesterday! Once again, here is more news on illegal trading. In case you haven't heard, I'll sum it all up for you.
The other day near Denver, CO., The Fish and Wildlife Service destroyed over SIX tons of ivory tusks, carvings, and jewelry. Where did this ivory come from? Elephants! All of this ivory came from the past 25 years of killing thousands of elephants. They piled up all of the ivory material and put it in a pyramid-shaped figure, then crushed it at the National Wildlife Property Repository north of Denver. The Fish and Wildlife Service plans on donating the remains to an undetermined museum. Along with this information, there was also a statement saying that elephant poaching is at an all-time high! Someone estimated that there were 32,000 elephants killed just last year and the ivory sells for $1,300 per pound.
As you can see, poaching and trading is still an on-going issue that will take more than a few people to put a stop to. Like I've been saying, it only takes a minute to take a stand to trading. On some of my previous posts, I have inserted several links to where you can "pledge" or sign up to help stop trading! I got my information on this post from Yahoo News. I encourage you to go check out the full article!
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