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you dont have to kill elephants to harvest their tusks
by throwaway2048 11y ago
you dont have to kill elephants to harvest their tusks
- gambiting 11y agoPachers kill elephants that had their tusks cut off already, to extract the tiny last bit of ivory remaining in their skulls. That's why strategies of cutting tusks off regular elephants and destroying them were unsuccessful - if anything, they made poachers more aggressive, since now they had to kill more elephants to get any amount of ivory at all.
- L-four 11y agoThe idea is that if elephants are owned. The owner would protect their investment in order to profit from the elephant in the furture when the tusks grow back.