Question Earthority!

“The elephant, the world’s largest land mammal, is being threatened with global extinction by a ‘rampant trade’ in ivory on the eBay online auction site, animal welfare campaigners said on Tuesday. International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said it had conducted a survey in Britain, Australia, China, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Canada and the United States and tracked more than 2,200 elephant ivory items listed on eBay websites. It found more than 90 percent of the listings breached even eBay’s own wildlife policies.” [editor’s note: Of course, if ivory could be sold legally and animals raised to “harvest” it from, there would be no endangerment implications. What’s going on here isn’t love of animals, it’s hatred of markets - TLK] (05/15/07)