Clintons Say to End Ivory Trade, Everyone Needs to Act

Hillary and Chelsea call for a complete ban on ivory sales.

The ivory trade is an "ecological and moral disaster" that requires businesses and consumers to take up the fight, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton argued in a joint op-ed published February 23 in the Financial Times.

Hillary, the former U.S. secretary of state, has been a vocal opponent of the black market trade in wildlife parts, calling for a global strategy to protect wildlife in their environments and dry up demand for trafficked wildlife goods. (Related: "Blood Ivory" in National Geographic magazine.)

"An estimated 35,000 elephants and more than 1,000 rhinos were killed last year alone. At this rate we are on a path towards the extinction of both elephants and rhinos on the African continent," the

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