2023-11-28 19:04:03
Hundreds of ivory objects were destroyed on Tuesday in Saint-Léonard, as part of an operation organized by the International Fund for Animal Protection and the French Biodiversity Office. Elisabeth Perotin/IFAW
This destruction operation aims to fight against trafficking and poaching by avoiding reintroductions onto the commercial market.
It’s a funny ephemeral exhibition which took place this Tuesday, November 28 in Saint-Léonard, on the outskirts of Reims. Hundreds of ivory objects, of more or less good taste, displayed in an industrial zone at the foot of the gigantic grinders lent by the Moroni company, producer of sand and gravel. Tusks more than a meter long, pieces cut with care, others in a much more crude manner, to make jewelry, trinkets of all kinds, including crucifixes, or even table cutlery. Nearly 1.8 tonnes in total which was lifted by a mechanical excavator to be crushed before being sent to the incinerator. The operation, organized by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the French Biodiversity Office (OFB), aims above all to alert people to trafficking responsible for the deaths of thousands of elephants each year.
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