Ivory: what is and isn't legal to buy and sell.(GEMS)

Jewelers Circular Keystone | February 1, 2005| | Copyright

"If more people understood the misleading laws, these 'facts' would not be reported," says Bobby Mann, noted ivory specialist and past president of the International Ivory Society, Temple Hills, Md. The laws and "facts" he refers to stem from a September CNN news report saying that TRAFFIC, a network that monitors the trade in wildlife, reports increased illegal U.S. ivory trade via Internet sales.

Mann tells JCK that the CNN article, and most consumer information, is simply not true. "Most of what you read is fiction, especially [news regarding] Internet sales. My ...

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