ATG letter: Black Mambas tackle poaching

MADAM – As a museum service curator of 40 years’ standing, with a special interest in British and Chinese decorative arts from 1500 to 1760, now retired but continuing my scholarly research as before, I have been following the debate on the ivory ban in the Antiques Trade Gazette, of which I am a long-term subscriber.

04 Jun 2018

From the Hampshire Chronicle.

04 Jun 2018

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I was therefore interested to read in your letters pages (ATG No 2342) about the group of women in Zimbabwe who were trying to get rid of their local elephant poachers.

So, I thought you might be interested to learn that there is a similar group in South Africa (reported in a recent issue of the Hampshire Chronicle, our local paper in Winchester) called the Black Mambas.

Margaret C Macfarlane

Winchester