Ivory trade will not end till China and US make it illegal

Intro Publication:  Terra Green

In mid-2015, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) carried out a well-publicised event in New York citys Times Square. It crushed seized ivory items weighing one ton (equivalent to 2000lbs or 907kg), as crowds cheered on and photographs with the hashtag #CrushIvory flooded Twitter. Then came the post-event rhetoric about how were not just crushing ivory; were crushing the blood ivory market.

It would seem illegal ivory trade had already come to a...