A new media campaign highlights difference between walrus and elephant ivory
Walrusivory.org aims to counter the effect that state-level bans in the United States aimed at elephant ivory have had on Alaska Native walrus ivory carvers.
January 14, 2022
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Revulsion over the devastating poaching of elephants in Africa has had an unintended victim, say Alaska Native groups: the legal and economically important trade of walrus ivory artwork created by Indigenous artists.
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