Oct 23 2008
Ivory Sales Now Banned on eBay
eBay announced this week that it will not longer allow sellers to sell ivory on any eBay site. I haven’t seen anything that specified that the ban is only for new ivory items, so I believe that anything at all made of ivory, even antiques, are banned.
The banning is intended to protect elephants by taking away a popular market for ivory items. But, ivory in general is being banned, so I’m assuming that ivory from other animals is also banned. There used to be quite a bit of mammoth ivory on eBay, and I actually think it might be a shame if that’s gone. It’s not as if the ivory was endangering the species…
