Who cares about bones, antlers, etc, from endangered species as part of a traditional Knife?

I agree, these guidelines should be followed- humans are very good at genocide against each other but we seem to constantly replace our numbers just to do the same errors over and over again. It is more serious when we intentionally or by complacency carry out a genocide on a species or habitat that results in its complete extinction/eradication- they cannot be replaced and eco balance will suffer. It is pitiful to see films of the last Tasmanian Tiger alone in a zoo in the 1930s, wiped out by ignorance, bounty hunting and by us. Homo sapiens, only we are often far from sapient and this is no joke.
 
I have knives with Stag , Wart Hog Ivory , Cow Bone , Cow Horn , and various Woods .
I feel no guilt concerning any of them.
I have to trust that the makers of them followed all of the Laws at the Time .
Mammoth Ivory or Bone , however it was obtained , comes from animals long extinct . No matter what we do now will not bring them back . So I have no problem with anyone using or having that material .
Saving Animals or Woods from becoming extinct is IMO a is not a bad thing to do . There are some beautiful animals that I would hate to have disappear as well as the rain forests .

Harry
 
Last edited:
Jiki said:
Appaloosa bone is used, so it has been proven viable.
Click to expand...
thought its just a name for the coloration of the bone,
could you please send me a link to an appaloosa horse bone?

what i remember is Primitive Percheron Bone on some GEC #45s in 2012 and Percheron is a draft horse breed.
 
fonedork said:
I read that giraffe bone contains a hallucinogen that makes you see giraffes. If you have enough LEGAL giraffe bone to try it out Iā€™d be very interested to hear about the experience.
Click to expand...
This is the very reason we no longer have giraffes in North America!

The rampant freebasing of giraffe bone must stop.

I personally have a CITES cert tho, so party over heeeeere!
 
I am all for measures, including bans, that preserve endangered species and deprive poachers of the money that motivates them
BUT, 2 notable exceptions"
1.If it is an old knife that doesn't reduce the number of animals pr enrich any poacher then that's a rare gem and legit in my book; and
2. If it's made by people on the land in a traditional small scale way, like the Inuit or Metis or Deh Cho or Newfies ( it's not about race), and that includes bear and seal, and Narwal tusk in particular, because these people are far more in tune with the environment and respect the animals more than any scientist or politician down south.
 
Last edited:
fonedork said:
I read that giraffe bone contains a hallucinogen that makes you see giraffes. If you have enough LEGAL giraffe bone to try it out Iā€™d be very interested to hear about the experience.
Click to expand...
Interesting, does one smoke it, ingest it or snort it? Iā€™m scared of needles so thatā€™s a no go, that and suppositorys. šŸ˜œ
 
sf fanatic said:
Interesting, does one smoke it, ingest it or snort it? Iā€™m scared of needles so thatā€™s a no go, that and suppositorys. šŸ˜œ
Click to expand...
I mis remembered it, I looked it up and it is a drink called umm nyolokh made from giraffe liver and bone marrow.
 
HJK said:
I am all for measures, including bans, that preserve endangered species and deprive poachers of the money that motivates them
BUT, 2 notable exceptions"
1.If it is an old knife that doesn't reduce the number of animals pr enrich any poacher then that's a rare gem and legit in my book; and
2. If it's made by people on the land in a traditional small scale way, like the Inuit or Metis or Deh Cho or Newfies ( it's not about race), and that includes bear and seal because these people are far more in tune with the environment and respect the animals more than any scientist or politician down south.
Click to expand...

ad 1.: thats no problem because you can get CITES certifications for your pre-ban material and you can get these certification for material from endangered animals when they were raised on farms for example (there are more exceptions).

ad 2,: Inuits got the vested right! The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states in Article 32: ā€œIndigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands or their territories and other resourcesā€.
 
  • Like
Reactions: HJK
JoKr said:
ad 1.: thats no problem because you can get CITES certifications for your pre-ban material and you can get these certification for material from endangered animals when they were raised on farms for example (there are more exceptions).

ad 2,: Inuits got the vested right! The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states in Article 32: ā€œIndigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands or their territories and other resourcesā€.
Click to expand...
Try getting a certification or exemption for Narwal from Qanaaq Greenland. On paper it may be possible. In reality, there's no customs control up there.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top