World Elephant Day calls for global effort to stop ivory poaching

Despite the global embargo on elephant ivory that has been in place since 1990, the rate of elephant slaughter for tusks is at the highest point in a decade. In this picture, three female African bush elephants travel as a small herd in Tanzania. Photo by Ikiwaner, taken July 29, 2010, licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.
The slaughter of elephants for their tusks continues. Pictured here are three female African bush elephants in Tanzania, July 2010. Photo by Ikiwaner, GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.

NEW YORK – LiveAuctioneers joins many other conservation-minded businesses on August 12, World Elephant Day, to raise awareness about how thousands of Asian and African elephants are killed every year to fuel the global demand for ivory. Many may mistakenly believe that the greatest demand for ivory is in Asia, but the fact is, 80 percent of the market for illegal ivory is in the United States.
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