ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月8日 01時18分

When #China announced a ban on the sale of commercial ivory last year, environmentalists worried about the fate of Africa’s dwindling elephant population cheered. But an increasingly popular substitute is raising new concerns. Many Chinese artisans have turned to the tusks of extinct #mammoths harvested from an unlikely place: the melting permafrost of Russia’s Arctic. No one can say for sure how much mammoth ivory remains to be unearthed, but as a fossil, it's limited in supply. The legal importation of mammoth ivory, which comes from creatures that vanished more than 3,600 years ago, has skyrocketed in China as dealers and carvers seek a substitute to meet the demand. “As long as there is a legal trade in mammoth, ivory of all kinds can be laundered into it,” said Mark Jones, associate director for policy for a wildlife conservation organization based in London. @gillessabrie photographed Chen Shu, the president of the China Association of Mammoth Ivory Art Research, in his Beijing apartment. Visit the link in our profile to read more. #?

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