Ivory Ban

The ivory ban put in place by citys to protect elephants and other ivory producing animals only solved part of the problem the ban only outlaws the hunting and poaching of elephants etc.

The ban doesn’t outlaw the trade of ivory. This means that an ivory already out in the world can be sold and traded as wished. This also means that ivory has gone up in value due to its availability. The high price of ivory has encouraged poachers to hunt elephants illegally for their ivory tusks. If citys had banned thee trade of ivory as well then they would eliminate the problem , unable to sell the ivory legitimately poachers would have to sell it illegally this would cut the amount of people who want to by ivory and make transporting the ivory much harder and more costly. Eventually the entire process would become so costly for the poaches that they would end up losing money and give up.