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Environment: Ivory Auctions A Disservice to Conservation

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, South Africa, Digital Activism, Environment

Richard Leakey blogs [1] about his concern regarding ivory auctions in South Africa. “…I believe that auctioning the ivory stockpiles would cause poaching to increase particularly in the central, eastern and western African elephant range states where poaching is not yet properly controlled.”