the mandrin ivory has a tint of orange in it
Ivory is worth a lot and is illegal to trade. Ivory is obtained by the killing of elephants for their tusks or rhinos for their horns. DONT BUY IVORY NO MATTER WHAT THE VALUE!
It's jewelry made out of ivory, elephant's tusks.
Exactly what it sounds like - a comb made out of ivory. Ivory is the trade name for stuff made from elephants' tusks, or the teeth of certain animals.
Never. The only person in ivory should be the bride. It is inappropriate for a person at a wedding, mother or not, to wear the same color as the bride.
Ivory produced before the production of ivory was banned.
The Ivory trade is not supposed to be happeninganywhere, because it has been banned, due to excessive poaching of Rhinos and Elephants.
It is illegal to sell or trade ivory tusks. It has been banned since 1989.
they are banned because it kills elephants just to get the tusks. therefore it is making the population of elephants decrease
Not even close. Even at it's peak ivory was much less than gold per ounce. Ivory trade is now banned internationally though.
Some people think that the ivory trading shouldn't be banned because they still want to use it for pretty ornaments.
Step 1)Ban the sale & purchase of ivory. 2)Make it illegal to own. 3)Confescate ivory items as contriban. 4)Possibly hold public displays of large quantities of ivory art being destroyed to really get the point though.
For decades, man has hunted elephants for their tusks (Ivory). Ivory is the main reason for the drastic decline in elephant populations around the world. As of now, almost all countries have banned hunting elephants for ivory or trading in ivory related products. If ivory trade was made legal again, the elephants may go extinct due to mans greed.
The animals that are routinely slaughtered for their ivory are in effect the ones that are becoming endangered. The animals often adults have young who in turn will die. The trade in irory, has been agreed in most countires as unneccessary as the irory presents no medical benefit to humans
Basically it's valuable because it's rare. You get it from elephant tusks, and not that much from each elephant either. And you have to kill the elephant to get it. In order to protect the animals, all trade in new ivory has been banned, making the existing pieces even more valuable.
Ivory is the answer
There is real ivory- a natural animal product, such as elephant ivory, walrus ivory, etc, and there is artificial manmade ivory.