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One elephant is killed every fifteen minutes for its ivory (iWorry, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, 2017).
The survival of the elephant species depends on us doing all we can to stop the African Elephant Conservation and Legal Ivory Possession Act
(Bill Number: HR 226) from coming to pass.
This Bill would allow ivory to be traded both, within the U.S. and also to be imported and exported. This is despite the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service banning the sale of elephant ivory in interstate commerce. Conservation experts agree that any trade in ivory only serves to undermine efforts to stop poaching and trophy hunting as it keeps the demand for ivory alive.
This Bill is entirely audacious because it uses legitimate elephant conservation measures as a thin veil of justification for trophy hunting and ivory trading. Anti-poaching units/programs are exploited in this Bill by painting a picture that anti-poaching measures can work alongside trophy hunting. This is a gross fabrication.
It is estimated that as many as 25,000 elephants are killed each year (iWorry, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, 2017).
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