“The Obama administration fed six tons (5.4 tonnes) of ivory trinkets – all made from the tusks of dead elephants – into a giant blue industrial rock crusher on Thursday to demonstrate its resolve to end an illegal $10bn (£6bn) trade that is funding international crime and terrorism.

The highly symbolic act of destruction at a government repository in Denver is part of a broader crackdown by Barack Obama on blood ivory. Conservation groups fed the first load of ivory into the crusher.

But the crush of the grisly animal artefacts stops short of the complete ban on domestic ivory sales campaigners are demanding.”

Source : The Guardian

Author : Suzanne Goldenberg

To read full article : http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/14/obama-administration-crush-6-tons-ivory