Knife Rights Speaks Out Against Ivory Ban – Urges Respect for Rule of Law

By Ammoland

Gilbert, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- A Knife Rights representative attended the August 24 2015 meeting of the Federal Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking in Washington, DC to speak out against the Council’s continued support for the Administration’s irrational proposed ivory ban rule that will hurt many knifemakers, collectors and millions of Americans.

Knife Rights abhors poaching of all species and supports science-based conservation efforts that have succeeded in posting significant GAINS in some elephant populations in recent years. We support practical efforts to defend elephants in the field that have resulted in MARKED DECLINES IN POACHING in recent years, as well as lawful enforcement activities that directly target illegal black-market trade in ivory. We support targeting poachers, not abusing law-abiding Americans in violation of long-held American principles.

Click here to read the letter we submitted to the Council opposing the irrational and unsupported ivory ban.

A key point we make is to note that the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) published a study, “Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) UPDATE ON ELEPHANT POACHING TRENDS IN AFRICA TO 31 DECEMBER 2014″ that evaluates relative poaching levels based on the Proportion of Illegally Killed …read more

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