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Senators and Representatives and ask them to cosponsor S. 2587 and H.R. 505: Create a specific ivoy market to help the local populations and fight poach
Simanot O.
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Senators and Representatives and ask them to cosponsor S. 2587 and H.R. 505
The actual way of fighting poaching is to destroy all the ivory and more to make illegal any work done using ivory and eventually even detention of old or recent one.
The implications are immense for the innocent people that have musical instruments (violin bows, ancient pianos) and many other , as the ones that repair those cherished oldies.
The piano trade do not really ask for the reappearing of ivory sources, but it would be a better way to help the local population that defend the elephants, than by creating a ban as actually.
The quantities would be small and expensive and documented.
Nobody believes that a ban is effective so much. On the contrary this will help poaching and rise the value of the "prohibited" material. the demand for ivory is principally for Asian countries, an not to make piano keys, but statuettes or small decorative objects.
Those very abrupt laws are setup actually in USA where there is almost no use of ivory today out of small parts of violin bows and may be some very improbable use of new ivory key cover to replace some that are chipped (usually the old ones are kept from old pianos going to trash, new ones are too clean looking so they are not in use)
Not any ivory keyboard have been one in USA since 1965 -
The initial law pretend to impeach transportation from state to state or repair of any object containing ivory. The S. 2587 and H.R. 505 are putting a limit for "all objects that contains yet legal ivory before feb 2014 which is of course yet better.
But if the goal is to help the local population that may do poaching for economic reasons, that is not with the few USD that american "sportive" hunters will leave when coming for elephant hunting (this being allowed and they can come 2 tusks a year with them) that any good will be done.
Create a legal market and put it under survey. that will give taxes locally and some work too.
And elephants die for natural or health reasons, or their tusks are cut to avoid poaching. so ivory is yet available without need to kill elephants.
I just want the public opinion to understand a little better what goes on an to raise their voice for more intelligent issues.
Thank you for your participation
The implications are immense for the innocent people that have musical instruments (violin bows, ancient pianos) and many other , as the ones that repair those cherished oldies.
The piano trade do not really ask for the reappearing of ivory sources, but it would be a better way to help the local population that defend the elephants, than by creating a ban as actually.
The quantities would be small and expensive and documented.
Nobody believes that a ban is effective so much. On the contrary this will help poaching and rise the value of the "prohibited" material. the demand for ivory is principally for Asian countries, an not to make piano keys, but statuettes or small decorative objects.
Those very abrupt laws are setup actually in USA where there is almost no use of ivory today out of small parts of violin bows and may be some very improbable use of new ivory key cover to replace some that are chipped (usually the old ones are kept from old pianos going to trash, new ones are too clean looking so they are not in use)
Not any ivory keyboard have been one in USA since 1965 -
The initial law pretend to impeach transportation from state to state or repair of any object containing ivory. The S. 2587 and H.R. 505 are putting a limit for "all objects that contains yet legal ivory before feb 2014 which is of course yet better.
But if the goal is to help the local population that may do poaching for economic reasons, that is not with the few USD that american "sportive" hunters will leave when coming for elephant hunting (this being allowed and they can come 2 tusks a year with them) that any good will be done.
Create a legal market and put it under survey. that will give taxes locally and some work too.
And elephants die for natural or health reasons, or their tusks are cut to avoid poaching. so ivory is yet available without need to kill elephants.
I just want the public opinion to understand a little better what goes on an to raise their voice for more intelligent issues.
Thank you for your participation
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