What about all that pollution of the atmosphere? Doesn’t global warming mean anything anymore?
Wonder how much of this has been switched out for the resin stuff.
I’m glad that there is nothing better that a country with a per-capita GDP of $1,245.51 could do with $270 million! Good to know that they don’t need any more foreign aid!
That’ll drive the price up and make poaching more attractive.
Waiting a minute, they want to stop the poaching of ivory, so they are decreasing the supply to up the demand?
Lower supply => Higher prices => More dead elephants
The King of hypocrites Leo DiCrapio was there? Immediately after, did he ride off in a ivory decorated limousine?
“Its a little bit funny” that a pianist is watching the destruction of piano key material. White keys only, of course.
WOW
the stupid, it hurts.
They could have sold that and made millions for their economy.
plus flooding the market with LEGAL ivory would have helped reduce demand, drove down prices and resulted in less poaching.
Now they have not only wasted millions, but will ensure Ivory is still hard to get and expensive and thus poaching will increase.
I guess none of them understand that keeping the ivory out of the market raises prices and makes poaching more profitable.
This makes me want to curl up in a corner, rock myself, and read Hayek.
The dark continent has “poor” between its ears. It will never benefit from any amount of money or help because it is cursed with evil. I’d like to see actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman, musician Elton John, financier George Soros, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Chinese former basketball player Yao Ming put up the $270M that could have been raised by the sale of this ivory as that is what it costs for them to get this publicity.
As of this wasting of a really neat product, the Hollywood types are reveling in this waste as “the message” goes out to the world about how they were part of something soooo important.
This is some idiocy right here.
Sir Elton John will there for the event? I find it hard to believe that any concert grand piano he has ever performed on would have synthetic ivory on the keys.
That’s a lot of pistol grips!
They should sell all on the ivory market.
are these people IDIOTS.....
sell the ivory for your empovershied citizens...
and use some fo thefunds to increasee PREVENTION OF POACHING...
idiots
So these freaks are against animal poaching but they are hell-bent on impovershing 99.99% of the population and eliminating 90% of the population.
Instead of poaching endangered animals, poachers should use their skills against the demon possessed globalists.
I really hope Boko Haram hasn’t read about this.