ivoire d'éléphant - Lot du jour : adjugé, vendu !

In this report, ("Elephant ivory - Lot of the day: sold!"), IFAW reveals the scale of the ivory trade taking place in auction rooms in France, while elephants are going through one of the most serious crises of their existence due to the demand for their ivory.

Indeed, among 1,774 lots of raw and worked ivory offered for sale by 174 auction houses and auctioneers over a period of two months (May to July 2014), at least 970 of them (for a weight equivalent of 1.8 tonnes) found a buyer. These sales generated a total amount of 1,227,455 Euros.

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