Essay On Ivory Trade

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The number of elephants and Rhinos in the world has dwindled significantly in the past few years. The reason for this population decrease is the Ivory trade. The Ivory trade is the selling and obtaining of the Ivory tusks and horns from elephants and rhinos. The Ivory trade pushed the populations of wild elephants and rhinos to almost extinction, so the Ivory trade was banned internationally on January 18th, 1990 (Ted). The international ban spurred stockpiling and exposed poaching. Daniel Stiles, a member of the IUCN/SSC African Elephant Specialist Group, proposed in his article, Can Elephants Survive a Continued Ivory Ban, to legalize the Ivory trade again to help stop the poaching on theses endangered animals (Stiles). Stiles’ proposition to reinstate the Ivory trade would not help the elephant and rhino populations rebound; it would also not stop the poaching that is making these populations dip to an all-time low (Stiles). In his article, Stiles …show more content…

The African governments are unstable at best, so having a committee that monitors Ivory trade would fall through the cracks of these developing countries. He also says that having a legal system monitoring Ivory trade would get rid of some of the “forbidden fruit” feelings that exist around the Ivory trade causing the sale of Ivory to go down (Stiles). Even with a legal system in place the stigmatism Ivory has because of the ban will last and keep the sale of Ivory on the rise, doing the exact opposite of the goal Stiles is trying to accomplish. Keeping the ban in place will keep some of the corrupt officials in these developing countries from abusing the Ivory trade for their own gain. The legal system that would have to be create would have to be strict and on top of things, with the state of most of the African countries it wouldn’t be a viable option because their resources are needed

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