By Despite a ban imposed by e bay Ivory objects,, it’s available on the UK eBay site. According to the BBC, Sellers are listing it under pseudonyms.
Ivory objects are listed as “bovine bone”.and thousands of such objects have been sold on the site. The ivory trade experts have tracked 500 eBay sales of ivory within a three-month period Dr Caroline Cox at the University of Portsmouth said that the business is booming in the UK.
There are about 400.000 elephants in Africa and “Organised ivory poaching is a threat in central Africa.
As the population grows the human-elephant conflict has intensified and organized ivory poaching is on the rise.
The UK brought into force what it called “one the toughest bans on elephant ivory sales in the world”. From 6th June, trade-in elephant teeth and tusks is illegal in the UK, punishable by fines of up to £250,000 or up to five years in prison.
Sri Lanka : The Sri Lankan government publicly destroyed its biggest ever illegal ivory haul of more than 350 tusks that were displayed at the Galle Face in Colombo before being fed into a 100-tonne crusher to be sent to an industrial furnace.
The haul, which came from African elephants slaughtered for their tusks, was seized at Colombo’s port nearly four years ago en route to Dubai from Kenya and destroyed in 2016.
