In recent years, the international community has finally begun to recognise that the existence of legal domestic ivory markets stimulates demand, confounds enforcement efforts and facilitates laundering, thereby incentivising the illegal killing of elephants and undermining field conservation efforts.
Born Free's Head of Policy Dr Mark Jones explains why a total ivory ban is not only crucial if we want to save elephants, but that there are a wide range of other issues and threats facing the species.
Elephants are in crisis. Help today: bornfree.org.uk/elephants-in-crisis
© Born Free Foundation, August 2018
