Coverage of the ATG CITES seminar held in January.
MADAM – One would not expect a leading broadsheet to indulge in fake news, yet this regrettably occurred at the conclusion of a report in The Times on ivory poaching by Aislinn Laing, who writes from Nairobi: “This month the UK announced the closure of its legal market in antique ivory” (October 25).
In fact, it is legal in the UK at present to sell ivory, worked before 1947, although the government is considering a proposal to ban all worked ivory, regardless of date, with exceptions only for sales to and between museums, of musical instruments, items containing only small amounts of ivory, and items of significant historical, cultural, or artistic value.