MADAM – The proper aim of all right-minded persons is to end ivory poaching. The irrelevant ‘ivory bill’ will not help.
In this I follow your correspondent, antique dealer Michael Baggott, who consistently deploys reason not sentiment in arguing to preserve antique ivory with its historic social and economic value.
The government proposes an ivory regulation that fails to tackle meaningfully ivory poachers and dealers in illicit post- 1947 ivory.