New York crushes two tons of ivory to smash illegal trade

Record ID: 905085

  • Title: New York crushes two tons of ivory to smash illegal trade
  • Date: 3rd August 2017
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF ILLEGAL IVORY ITEMS ON DISPLAY (6 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 17th August 2017 20:34
  • Keywords: Wildlife Conservation Society Ivory elephants elephants ivory New York City ivory Mick Fleetwood
  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Environment,Nature/Wildlife,Human Interest / Brights / Odd News
  • Reuters ID: LVA0036SLT93B
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The Wildlife Conservation Society crushed more than two tons of elephant ivory in Central Park on Thursday (August 3) in a symbolic smashing of the illegal ivory trade that conservationists say kills a hundred elephants a day in Africa and other parts of the world.
    Hundreds of trinkets, ornate carvings and jewelry items were confiscated in New York. The carved ivory, some of it still in the form of an elephant's tusk, was placed on a conveyor belt that fed into an enormous mechanical crusher, where it was pulverized it into dust.
    The event demonstrated the urgency for stopping the criminal trade, which is killing elephants faster than the animals are reproducing, imperiling their populations.
    New York passed a law in August 2014 hardening the state's stance on the ivory trade by banning the sale of ivory and increasing penalties for ivory sales.
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