When Will the Mammoth Ivory Run Out?

[redsquid2]

I also wonder where in the world it comes from. There can't be that many mammoth tusks available.

 

[nickvnlr]

I think they keep digging up frozen mammoth carcasses up in Alaska and Russia.

 

[stabman]

They existed for over 100 thousand years.
Each year more tusks emerge from spring thaws.

There's enough for many more generations to enjoy on knife handles. :thumbup:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/world/europe/26mammoth.html?_r=0

 

[flatblackcapo]

If people don't stop using Mammoth Ivory the Mammoth will be extinct in no time!

 

[stabman]

If people don't stop using Mammoth Ivory the Mammoth will be extinct in no time!

Save the mammoths!!!

 

[RevDevil]

If people don't stop using Mammoth Ivory the Mammoth will be extinct in no time!

That is the most important point.

 

[dejard]

The vast majority of it comes out of Siberia. As long as they continue to uncover the fossilized remains of woolly mammoths, the supply will be there. Some have estimated as many as 10 million mammoth "corpses" have yet to be discovered.

So supply doesn't appear to be an issue here, at least for the foreseeable future. What may curtail the trade in mammoth ivory are those who believe such legal demand contributes to the demand of illegal elephant ivory. As such, groups are currently working to get all forms of ivory put on the CITES list...

 

[onojoe]

The vast majority of it comes out of Siberia. As long as they continue to uncover the fossilized remains of woolly mammoths, the supply will be there. Some have estimated as many as 10 million mammoth "corpses" have yet to be discovered.

So supply doesn't appear to be an issue here, at least for the foreseeable future. What may curtail the trade in mammoth ivory are those who believe such legal demand contributes to the demand of illegal elephant ivory. As such, groups are currently working to get all forms of ivory put on the CITES list...

That's what they said about whales

 

[stabman]

That's what they said about whales

But mammoths are extinct.
They cannot go extinct...because they already are.
No one is killing the already dead for thousands of years mammoths.

Not at all like whales.

 

[dejard]

That's what they said about whales

What, that the vast majority come out of Siberia?

Seriously, though, the efforts of those who would seek a total ban on all ivory trade have actually had the opposite effect of increasing demand for illegal elephant ivory. Here's a good article explaining why that's the case -- http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/perspectives/292575/the-big-ivory-apple

 

[EChoil]

What effect will the recent New Jersey ivory ban, which I consider to be Draconian, have on this?

Doesn't the NJ ban affect even previously owned pieces?

 

[gadunz]

 

[dejard]

What effect will the recent New Jersey ivory ban, which I consider to be Draconian, have on this?

Doesn't the NJ ban affect even previously owned pieces?

From Knife Rights: http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=275

And from the BladeForums: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1228766-IVORY-What-s-the-current-status-of-the-law

 

[dejard]

Looks like he's using the ESEE Mammoth Slayer MS10

 

[redsquid2]

What in the world? Is this for real, just mammoth tusks sticking out of a rock?

Some of these replies crack me up.

Save The Mammoths!!!!

 

[gadunz]

Ice cliff. Global warming means more uncovered from former permafrost. But the Chinese want elephant ivory as status symbols = elephant extinction.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/125-mammoth-tusks/larmer-text

 

[alaskas finest]

When nobody wants it anymore

 

[RamZar]

From a 2011 NY Times article:

The tusks are more abundant than many people in the West realize. Encased in an upper layer of Siberia’s permafrost are the remains of an estimated 150 million mammoths that lived from 3,600 to 400,000 years ago. The parts surface in the spring thaw across vast stretches of Russia’s far north and are routinely collected. Most are exported — legally — to China, South Korea and Japan to be carved into personal stamps used in place of signatures on documents.​