A herd of elephants feed around the waterhole at Pendjari National Park near Tanguieta in Benin.Amid growing calls for an outright ban, the European Union has come under increasing pressure to help protect African elephants by ending the trade of ivory within its borders.
The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, which campaigns against the ivory trade, says that between 2007 and 2014, 144,000 elephants were killed across Africa — the equivalent of one death every 15 minutes.The United States outlawed domestic trade in 2016, with China following suit a year later.Critics maintain that legal domestic ivory markets fuel laundering of illegal ivory and undermine ivory bans elsewhere.
“As long as a market exists for ivory, you can be sure that elephants are being killed to sustain it.”The European Union currently has, at least in theory, stringent rules on ivory sales within its borders. Ivory sold as “antique” currently requires no proof of authenticity or origin within Europe, it said.
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