The Duke of Cambridge wants to strip all the ivory from Buckingham Palace and destroy it, The Independent on Sunday can reveal, in a move conservationists hailed as "extremely significant" in the fight against elephant poaching.
Some 1,200 items containing ivory are listed in the royal collection, including a throne from India that incorporates elephant-ivory plaques. The move would seek to encourage other heads of states to give up their ivory stocks and collections.
The revelation comes days after the Duke attended the world's largest ever conference on the illegal wildlife trade, which called for an end to the £12bn trade in animals and their parts, including ivory. At least 45 tons of ivory were seized in 2013, believed to be the biggest annual haul in a quarter of a century. » | Sarah Morrison | Sunday, February 16, 2014
My comment:
What a ridiculous suggestion! What good will destroying all those wonderful objets d'art do? That would be wanton destruction, rather like Salafists wanting to destroy the Sphinx and the Pyramids. I feel sure that the Queen would not warm to this suggestion!
If Prince William really wants to do something positive for elephants, then he can determine not to accept such gifts in future, and not purchase anything made with ivory from now on.
This suggestion is redolent of those women who took their fur coats and burned them. It did not bring back the animals who had to suffer to make them, not did it help to keep anyone warm.
This suggestion is more than silly, it's ridiculous. –© Mark
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