The ivory trade review

Abstract

Outlines the Ivory Trade Review a collaborative study initiated by AERSG and involving CITES and TRAFFIC well as other agencies whose finding and recommendations will be presented to the African Elephants Working Group meeting in July 1989 prior to the CITES Conference being held that later that year. Notes that such a task force is required because that can be not doubt about the predicament of the African elephant. Since the management or mismanagement of the ivory trade has direct relationship to the conservation of the animal a study which includes ivory as a commodity, the status of elephant populations, the official policies and and the attitudes people hold towards elephants and ivory, and the optionsin ivory trading should prove very useful in assessing what can be done to ensure the future of both the species and the trade.