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World Elephant Day: Study calls for domestic trade bans and projects to cut demand for ivory

12 AUGUST 2015 | DAILY MAVERICK | ANDREAS WILSON-SPATH | FREE TO REPUBLISH CREDIT CAT

If you want to save elephants, don’t legalise the international trade in ivory. That’s the message of a major research paper published to coincide with World Elephant Day on August 12. The paper, by South African Institute of International Affairs researcher Ross Harvey, says that instead carefully targeted demand-reduction programmes in Asian consumer countries need … Full Story ?