Posted on 03/27/2016 9:09:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Cheryl Konrad has spent the last 35 years educating visitors to her Lahaina, Hawaii, store about the centuries-old history of scrimshaw.
Konrad fills the shelves in Lahaina Scrimshaw with the etchings of local artists on fossilized walrus and mammoth ivory. But if a bill to ban the sale of ivory becomes law this year, she worries that she will be forced to close her store.
“I feel like I’ve been a part of history. It’s just so hard to fathom that it could be criminal eventually,” Konrad said.
Similar legislation in previous years has failed largely because of pushback from local merchants who make a living selling legal ivory carvings and jewelry. But increased awareness of the poaching elephants in Africa is leading lawmakers to reconsider. …
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Why do I smell useless, hand-wringing, bored liberals ???
Good luck, with all the Asians there.
I thought it was already banned. I have a small cross made from fossilized walrus tusk. This guy went extent thousand of years ago. The Inuit in Alaska have the license to mine this stuff and then the jeweler makes it into jewelry. Really special to me.
Hell, they cannot even stop the local practice of eating dogs..........just a liberal gesture........
Protect extinct animals NOW!!! /s;)
My neighbor has a mammoth tusk in front of his fire place, his dad found it looking for gold. 60 dollars/ lb I hear is going rate.
So they just think they can sit there in their lush ivory towers and pull this off?
Why don’t they pass a law to grow some more Mammoths? Problem solved.
“Why don’t they pass a law to grow some more Mammoths? Problem solved”
The Russians are working on it.
http://rbth.com/science_and_tech/2014/08/29/russian_scientists_attempt_to_clone_a_mammoth_39395.html
It’s nothing but a 99 44/100% pure assault on America I tell you.
The tusk was looking for gold?
If it is fossilized, then it is stone, not ivory.
If they banned Ebony, would that be racist?
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