Ivory Keys banned?

[David Andersen]

>In 1989, the international trade in ivory from African elephants was banned
>by the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered
>Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the treaty that governs much of the
>international trade in plants and animals. International trade in Asian
>elephant ivory had already been banned in 1975. Before the 1989 ban, CITES
>had tried to regulate and control the ivory trade. It couldn't. By 1989, it
>was estimated that 90% of ivory in the so-called legal trade was from
>poached elephants. It was clear that a legal ivory trade was a death
>sentence to elephants. Individual nations passed laws to implement that ban.

Wow.  Thanks, Jason, for the details.  It's appreciated.

Daivd Andersen