On 03/24/2014 12:53 PM, William Brohinsky wrote:
What a world, where government officials will destroy a musical
instrument of beauty and quality sound because they think, somehow,
this will stop people from cutting down the same variety of tree in
another country...
Has anyone noticed how much good the confiscation and
heavens-only-knows-what-disposition of undocumented but legal ivory
has curtailed the ivory poaching rate?
Yeah, although I understand the desire to protect the trees and the
elephants etc., these efforts probably have the side effect of making
the material more valuable which much tickle the poachers.
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