Countries at IUCN Congress vote to ban domestic ivory markets

At the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Hawaii last week, delegates passed a motion to ban all domestic ivory markets.

The ban is not legally binding, but urges governments with legal domestic markets for elephant ivory to close them down.

Countries like Namibia, Japan and South Africa opposed the motion arguing that domestic markets should be regulated but kept open.



Culled from Mongabay