Lawmakers: leave certification of solid ivory objects to the specialists

MADAM – I write for the purposes of maintaining the trade in general, and in advance of knowing the provisions in the forthcoming law regulating the UK ivory trade (which can only act to the detriment of the trade and do nothing to save the elephant). The law could consider the separation of items solely made of ivory from those that contain ivory as a constituent part.

The difficulty seems to be the accurate dating of solid ivory but the date of an object that conta…

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