Conservationists seek to slow ivory trade in US
By: Reuters | Jun 11 2015 at 05:00 PM | International Trade
Conservationists petitioned the U.S. government to upgrade the status of African elephants from threatened to endangered to make it harder to import and export ivory, in hopes of reducing illegal tusk trading.
Poaching elephants for their ivory tusks is the biggest threat to the species' survival, said Tara Easter, a scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity.