AR-News: Illegal ivory has been found in bagpipes on sale in Scotland,

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3503654.stm

      Illegal ivory 'found in bagpipes'
     
             
            Ivory was once used to decorate the drone 
      Illegal ivory has been found in bagpipes on sale in Scotland, according to animal welfare campaigners. 
      The material must date back to before 1947 to be legal. 

      However, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw) said it had found a number of bagpipe items of "dubious" origin on sale in Edinburgh. 

      The campaign group believes that the sale of such items could contribute to more poaching of endangered elephants for their ivory. 


      Ifaw said the UK ivory trade was "thriving and uncontrolled". 

      It is campaigning against moves to legalise the sale of African ivory stockpiles. 

      Ivory smuggling 

      A committee of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), which meets next week, could vote to allow a one-off sale. ........................


     


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