At a plenary session debate in Strasbourg on Wednesday 13 June, MEPs from all political groups called for a total ban on the domestic trade in ivory in the EU, to end elephant poaching.
The EU is the largest domestic ivory market in the world and is also the largest exporter of legal ivory; however, ivory from poaching often enters the legal market, making elephants a lucrative target for poachers, they stressed in the case they made to the European Commission, which they questioned about...