Yes, because people would NEVER trade illegal products. How shocking.
Yes, as a matter of fact, there ARE roving hordes of ivory poachers.
Sure there are. Cuz National Geographic doesn’t have any environmentalist agenda and they’d NEVER inflate the numbers or exaggerate the outlook ... We’ve been hearing this “endangered elephants” claptrap since Ernest Hemingway bagged his last tusker. Yet there are — by this article’s own admission — half a million of them left.
I ain’t buyin’ it.