Internet sales put Americans high on the list of consumers. Washington offers leadership to ban all domestic sales, build global networks of enforcement.
United States Emerges as Big Ivory Market, Seeks Global Ban
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Chopsticks carved from an elephant's ivory tusks are still popular in China. Customs agents in Hong Kong seized 758 chopsticks, 127 bracelets, and 33 rhino horns on November, 2011. The street value was estimated at $2 million.
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Kenya Wildlife Service officers hold black rhino horns that were part of a shipment of 16 elephant tusks taken from smugglers trying to fly them to Bangkok in 2009.
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Nguyen Huong Giang demonstrated in her Hanoi apartment in 2012 how to grind rhinoceros horn with water to mix a liquid she drinks to reduce the effects of too much drinking the night before or alleviating her seasonal allergies. Others in Vietnam think it will cure cancer and other debilitating or fatal illnesses.
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The technician at the controls of a Hong Kong chemical treatment plant control room monitors the incineration of 28 tons of ivory in March, 2014. The process could take a year, according to some officials.