Chinese Faggots

The poaching of Ivory from Elephants by killing them is virtually exclusively due to the Chinese Medicine market. Elephant numbers have dramatically increased however since an African wide poaching ban, due to their size they are now a pest in some parts of rural Africa as they eat crops, knock down trees and trash villages if they are looking for water of food.

There are still stockpiles of ivory, which impoverished Africans want to sell to oriental markets - this will be made legal when CITES downlist some countries African Elephants to Appendix 11 from appendix 1 on the CITES red list of endangered species.

This refuelling of ivory on the market could however lead to demand in the future (if more people think ivory potions work or are prescribed it!) and so lead to heavy poaching and ivory being in big demand again.

This would then reduce the tourist trade in Africa as many people go there to see Elephants in the wild, so it is in many African government and individuals interest to protect the animals.

An alternative to this would be to get Africans to 'farm' Elephant tusks by tranqulising them and cutting the tusks almost off so the animal still lives. Otherwise it won't be long before the Chinese are farming elephants, tied up in intensive farming cages. Very similar to the ways they farm bears for their bile and tigers for their skins, meat and medicine.