See Swap Forum about ivory

Jens Nordlunde · 14th July 2018, 09:02 PM

Ian,
The way you look at it makes me take my hat off to you, as I would have been quite angry.l
However things are as they are, so the soft heads in the different parliments dont understand anything - sorry if this was too political, but it is meant broadly.
Does anyone contact their congeressman to tell him to do something about this?
I know that Robert Elgood did, and according to what he told me, the English did send troops to Africa to help catching the shooters.
I am not one to tell you what to do - but please do what you can.

Lee · 20th July 2018, 02:06 AM

Here is an interesting article on the status of antique ivory from earlier in the year.

I would hope that no one here would donate to any of those NGOs promoting such extreme restrictions on bona fide antique ivory and rhino horn. Hopefully some court will eventually recognize that this is an unreasonable seizure of the value of a person's property without legitimate cause and will force the regulations be better focused on legitimate targets.

14th July 2018, 09:02 PM	#1
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	Ian, The way you look at it makes me take my hat off to you, as I would have been quite angry.l However things are as they are, so the soft heads in the different parliments dont understand anything - sorry if this was too political, but it is meant broadly. Does anyone contact their congeressman to tell him to do something about this? I know that Robert Elgood did, and according to what he told me, the English did send troops to Africa to help catching the shooters. I am not one to tell you what to do - but please do what you can.

20th July 2018, 02:06 AM	#2
Lee EAAF Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Upstate New York, USA Posts: 932	Here is an interesting article on the status of antique ivory from earlier in the year. I would hope that no one here would donate to any of those NGOs promoting such extreme restrictions on bona fide antique ivory and rhino horn. Hopefully some court will eventually recognize that this is an unreasonable seizure of the value of a person's property without legitimate cause and will force the regulations be better focused on legitimate targets.