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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rhiwfield, post: 178971, member: 924&quot;]Animals that do not have a current economic use will be vulnerable to extinction. Legalising the sale of ivory is more likely to see elephants survive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Photo opportunities where mass seizures of ivory are burned only serve to drive up the price and make poaching more lucrative.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the same token hunting prey species is more likely to see those species survive as there is money to be made protecting a lucrative pastime.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I think that an ivory ban, with only sales being those where antique status can be proved, will happen in the UK. And it willhave no positive impact on the elephant population.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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