CITES repeated 19th century colonisers' mistakes
Friday, August 30, 2019

Cecil Rhodes
The Ivory Education Institute is dedicated to an understanding of the historic, practical, and artistic uses of ivory.
For CITES — an organisation that pays an enormous amount of lip service to the scientific basis for its decisions — getting you and your colleagues facts about this unique material is a difficult task.
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