Elephant ivory, at least, is a renewable resource. Mammoth ivory is not.
A lot of natural history is being chopped up for trinkets, losing all scientific value in the process. For vanity. This is disgusting.
Indeed.
Next thing you know, they will be fashioning jewelry for the Uber-Rich from irreplaceable Dinosaur Fossils.
It is just vile.
That’s all.
So? We burn fossil fuel every day to produce electricity. It is called coal.
Most of northern Russia and part of Alaska have large amounts of fossil ivory. You might call it the original Elephant graveyard.