Rabu, 09 Agustus 2017

History of Ivory

In a simpler time, Americans couldn’t imagine the consequences of using elephant tusks from Africa to equip every parlor with a piano. Last summer on the island of Zanzibar, off the East Coast of Africa, authorities seized a stash of more than 1,000 elephant tusks. The contraband had been hidden in sacks of dried sardines, …

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