US to destroy ivory stocks in effort to stop illegal elephant poaching

Obamas government shows again its efforts to stop the illegal ivory trade which is a huge threaten for elephant specie. Obamas administration has announced on Monday  that 6m tons of seized ivory will be destroy in public which is going to take place at white house on 8th October.

This event steps up the efforts to crush the ivory trade and send also a caution to its traders that humanity is going to act against them. Around 35.000 African elephants were killed for their tusks last year. If this fact is going to be continued, in the next 10 years African forests elephants will be extinct.

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