Hawaii, the third largest ivory market in the U.S., is considering a bill to ban the sale of ivory. According to Keith Swindle of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Hawaii, a ban on nearly all ivory is necessary because it’s tricky to tell ivory’s age. “If I gave you two pieces of ivory, you could not tell them apart if one is legal or illegal,” he said. “So if you have a legal ivory market, it makes it very easy to have a market to illegally launder ivory.”
Link: The Washington Post