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What the government won’t do is stand up to and confront China and the other Asian countries that are responsible for the demand for ivory and the ivory trade.

Nor will they make the financial resources available to help the most impoverished nations of Africa fight the highly organised and heavily armed gangs of poachers who will, no doubt, slaughter elephants to extinction.

Alistir Wood Tait

Antique & Fine Jewellery Edinburgh