Posts Tagged ‘number of elephants’

The Friday File: In a moment of economic madness, the US government recently destroyed six tons of ivory, equivalent to the ivory from 2,000 elephants, and worth $16.3 million, or $8,200/elephant. With only 200,000 elephants left and a record 25,000 killed last year, making all existing ivory more valuable by depleting the supply only encourages…