Un-Netting Trade in Endangered Species: eBay Vows Crackdown on Illegal Ivory Sales

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 19:07 in Biology & Nature

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) today issued a new report charging that users of eBay.com are behind two thirds of the online trade in endangered animals worldwide, specifically, ivory made from tusks ripped from poached elephants. The report comes just months after IFAW accused eBay, Inc., of failing to clamp down on the illegal animal sales and a day after the San Jose, Calif., company announced a global ban on the sale of most types of ivory (with the exception of "antique" items made before 1900 that contain small bits of ivory, such as antique piano keys or tables with ivory inlay). [More]

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