Legal ivory sale drove dramatic increase in elephant poaching, study shows
by Damian Carrington from Environment | The Guardian on (#1H1D8)
Research shows the legal sale in 2008 catastrophically backfired - but two African nations want to repeat the stockpile sell-off
A huge legal sale of ivory intended to cut elephant poaching instead catastrophically backfired by dramatically increasing elephant deaths, according to new research.
The revelation comes just months before a decision on whether to permit another legal sale and against a backdrop of more African elephants being killed for ivory than are being born. In 2015 alone, 20,000 elephants were illegally killed.
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