Last week, in Denver, the government crushed six tons of ivory, as a display of solidarity with the thousands of elephants whose deaths contributed to the boon of carved trinkets and holy relics confiscated at the border. IFAW's Jeff Flocken, says that the United States needs to take elephant poaching and the ivory trade more seriously. For all of the conversation surrounding China's appetite for ivory, Flocken says that the United States is likely the second largest market for ivory in the world.
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