Talk:Ivory trade/Archives/2021

Sale of ivory after preventive tusk removal

Preventive tusk removal by park rangers has not been mentioned in this page. This seems a useful technique to discourage poachers and maintain the species and still be able to still sell the natural material.

The question is: what is the best approach then ? Sell those removed tusks instead of destroying them ? Or destroy them (which results in increased prices of ivory on the black market) (see destruction of ivory) ? I seem to think the best approach is to have the wildlife parks sell it, under a CITES certification, to bring in revenue for the wildlife park and help pay park ranger wages (resulting in better protection of the wildlife park).

Perhaps this can be mentioned somehow in the article ? --Genetics4good (talk) 12:15, 16 March 2021 (UTC)