Call Al Gore immediately!! This cannot stand!!
From the article:
**Most jewelers claim that woolly mammoth jewelry is conflict free, eco friendly and sustainable. The truth is mammoth ivory is rare and costly because mammoths have been extinct for millennia.
The AFP reports Hong Kong customs cleared 21 tons of mammoth ivory and more than 90 percent of it came from Russia’s arctic tundra. Most of it is anywhere from 10,000 to 40,000 years old.
“Mammoth ivory is absolutely a non-renewable resource, and it is absolutely being depleted, in part, by the commercial trade,” Dan Fisher, a University of Michigan mammoth expert, told AFP.
While it’s hard to say how soon the world’s stockpile of fossilized ivory could disappear, Fisher says it probably won’t be any sooner than about 10 years from now.**