ATG letters: Ivory trade - the pressure is on
MADAM – One would not expect a leading broadsheet to indulge in fake news, yet this regrettably occurred at the conclusion of a report in 'The Times' on ivory poaching by Aislinn Laing, who writes from Nairobi: “This month the UK announced the closure of its legal market in antique ivory” (October 25).
In fact, it is legal in the UK at present to sell ivory, worked before 1947, although the governme…