Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Ivory
One article that I found through the Huffington Post was an article titled “Google Ivory Ads In Japan Fuel Demand, Conservation Group Claims”, by Todd Pitman. The article talks about the acceleration of elephant ivory harvesting, with “killing of African elephants at record levels”. It goes on to talk about how the high demand is due to largely to China, Thailand, and Japan. How Google fits in to the story is that many conservation groups are saying that the buying and selling for Asia is being fueled by Google adds. The use of this ivory is for Hanko’s or a type of Asian stamp, this stamp is used as a form of marking or signing. They are used for things from signing documents, to opening a bank account. The ivory in these stamps is what makes up the actual bottom of the stamp which is required in creating each individually unique Hanko. The article also touches base on the fact that there used to be about 5 million elephants roaming the African lands, but now there are a few hundred thousand.
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