Simply closing the U.S. market and prohibiting the import-export, interstate and intra-state sale of elephant ivory will not save elephants in the ivory producing states.
I am hoping that steps beyond what we are discussing today, which needs to be further discussed and refined, can be taken by the United Stat...
We are going to have to go after the middle men, the source, the other major consumers, but we are going to have to set an example here.
If we could put together something bipartisan, we can get the attention, I believe, of some of these countries that are facilitating the abs...
The international law enforcement community must target those hot spots.
if wildlife has no economic value, then there is little, if any, incentive for the people who live in that habitat to conserve or save them
So as a result of one or two cases of significant, substantial amounts that you claim today... you are saying that we should now deem all ow...
the African Elephant Conservation Act of 1988 clearly implies that no such limitation should be placed
the easiest thing for them is to simply declare that virtually everything is contraband
In order to stop this killing, the world community must work together to stop the flow of illegal ivory.
It is clear that the rate of illegal killing that African elephants have experienced is tragic.