SOME THOUGHTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL BAN ON THE IVORY TRADE 1. What is the Objective of the International Ban on the Ivory Trade?
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If the objective of the Trade Ban is to “save elephants” then this assumes there are hard data to demonstrate first, that it is the trade itself which is the prime cause of the decline in elephant numbers in Africa and second, that manipulating the trade will indeed effect elephant mortality rates. These are contentious issues to say the least. What is required here are empirical data relating changes in the quantity of the traded goods (ivory in this case) and changes in elephant mortality rates. If such empirical relationships cannot be demonstrated unambiguously then any causal link between trade and elephant mortality remains pure speculation and wishful thinking.
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