U.S. Total Ivory Ban

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Charles Vestal

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The Knifemakers Guild's Facebook page has a couple of post about a Presidential Advisory Committee that is going to recommend a total ban on all Ivory. There's no distinction between Mammoth, ancient Walrus or antique Ivory.

If you like Ivory on your knives you might want to send an email to the address given in the Guild's post

Take care

Charles
 
Here's the text from the Guild facebook posts that Charles mentioned.

From yesterday: "Ivory in danger. A Presidential Advisory Committee met in Washington today where many are calling for a total ban on all ivory sales within the US borders making no distinction in fossil, mammoth antique or even what species. Several groups including Natural Resources Defense Council and World Wildlife Fund are standing behind this effort. The 6 tons of ivory crushed November 14, 2013 by the US Fish and Wildlife Department got this ball rolling."

From today:
"Ivory Ban - The Presidential Advisory Committee that met 12/16/13 does plan to recommend a total ban of ivory within the US to the task force on Wildlife Trafficking. If you want to oppose that action please email ACWT@FWS.GOV before December 28th when they file their report."

Send an email!
 
I moved this to ATG.

I doubt this will happen, as these things pop up often and did in committee. Just because a committee proposes something won't make it a law. However, registering your opinion by contacting the FWS and your legislators is how to prevent someone snowballing a bad idea.

I have to say that the only info on this subject a search gets seems to be this thread and an old thread on an African Hinting forum. Can anyone post a link to the current committee report? I'm not saying this is a hoax , but we have all seen similar statements made about many other things,....most just the postings of someone who has an agenda to promote. When The first word in a negative post or email is Presidential or Obama, a red flag goes up.
 
I'm with you, Stacy, on the source criticism. There's not much out there on this except what we've put out there.

All I've found so far is a report that the committee exists and has plans to propose a ban. No outside confirmation yet of the report other than the Guild site.

http://www.doi.gov/news/pressrelease...t-poaching.cfm
 
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