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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4091077, member: 2844&quot;]No one in the Western world is in the habit of using ivory.</p><p>And if you bother to read more threads on the forum, you will see that we condemn ivory poaching and the use of recent ivory. We always take CITES regulations into account when advising people.</p><p>In doing so we are more consistent than CITES itself, which in recent years has allowed the Southern African nations to lift the ban on (confiscated) ivory sales a few times.</p><p><br /></p><p>China is the main buyer, but Chinese are very uneducated about ivory. Common misconceptions there are that tusks are shed naturally or that you can cut them and they grow back. Clearly more education is needed in China and other East Asian countries. Verbal abuse doesn&#039;t help people move forward, knowledge does.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is widely known that these people you sympathise with are professional mercenaries, armed with modern weapons of war. They use helicopters and AK47s. They are not forced, it is a choice. They are much better armed and much better paid than the wildlife guards who risk their lives to protect elephants, rhinos etc.</p><p>In Congo&#039;s Garamba park alone, 13 park rangers were killed during a 3 year period. This is something that goes on in all African elephant and rhino countries.</p><p>Yet your sympathies lie with the mercenaries. These sympathies, other &#039;arguments&#039; you have used, as well as your belligerent behaviour, give me reason to question your ethics. I think it is high time you got off that high horse of yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t bother to reply, you have managed to kill someone else&#039;s nice thread, that is more than enough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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