<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I used to wonder about the efficacy of selling confiscated ivory to help defray the cost of anti-poaching operations. Unfortunately, any increase in the supply feeds the black market as well, leading to the further slaughter of elephants. The idea is to remove the market entirely, and I think I'll side with the "global do-gooders" in this case.<br> <br> - Mark<br> <br> On 2:59 PM, Chuck Vetter wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:%3CF92E65DA0CFE4A32B4BA28C64EF9EE47@ChucksComputer%3E" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 9.00.7930.16423"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <div>This country, full of desperately poor people, could have sold this resource for a small fortune. Instead, they were forced by “global do-gooders” to destroy this valuable product.  I could get very political but won’t.......but this is not the singular fault of one or the other political party. We simply need to elect persons who will take action to rein in the over zealous who, at the approval of their own conscience, insist they must protect us from any and all ills real or imagined.  </div> <div>Chuck Vetter</div> <br> </div> </div> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>