MADAM – May I please offer three cheers to your correspondent, Edric van Vredenburgh, who has put his finger firmly on a fundamental flaw in our government’s proposed new legislation on ivory (ATG No 2337).
I know very little about ivory but a considerable amount about conservation, and his observations are absolutely correct.
This new regulation will save absolutely no elephants at all. As window dressing and positive PR, the move may win friends around the world. However, as a contribution to the salvation of our greatest surviving land mammal, it will be utterly ineffective.