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Mammoth challenge to China’s ivory ban
08·12·2017 Robert Foyle Hunwick
The legal sale of mammoth tusks may be masking illegal trades in elephant ivory.
A new threat to the world’s elephant population has emerged from a long-extinct quarter: the woolly mammoth.
Today marks World Elephant Day, an international event intended to raise awareness of illegal ivory trading and the conservation of the endangered animal. But while the Asian trade in raw ivory has reportedly plummeted since the ban, poaching has not—and neither has demand.
According to a recent report in The New York Times, a thriving replacement trade in mammoth tusks, a fossil substitute to harvesting from live elephants, has fueled fears that it may be used as a cover for illegal ivory—and anyway legitimizes a product that many in China would wish to make taboo.
As of April 1, all of China’s ivory factories officially ceased production, with outlets set to close by the beginning of 2018, but analysts point out that a recent fall in prices does not correspond to any drop in demand.
The mammoth tusk industry is centered in Russia’s melting Arctic tundra, and the product usually enters China via its northeast Heilongjiang province. Collecting mammoth tusks is legal in Russia (with a license), though prospecting is not, but experts say neither country have the robust legal systems or anti-smuggling capabilities necessary to tackle the growing problem.
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The emerging trade in mammoth—and all the associated problems—is expected to be a growth industry, with insiders banking on the darker tusks replacing white ivory to sustain a business that’s been throwing into “upheaval” by the ban. One trader told the Times that carving was an “intangible part of [Chinese] cultural heritage”; another warned “it is not going to disappear.”
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