A new report from a href=”http://www.ifaw.org/”>International Fund for Animal Welfare reports finding more than 4,000 elephant ivory listings on the popular auction site eBay—and more than 7,000 wildlife product listins on over 180 Web sites in 11 countries. As a result, eBay has agreed to ban the sale of all ivory products beginning January 1, 2009.
“We feel this is the best way to protect the endangered and protected species from which a significant portion of ivory products are derived,” the company wrote in its blog.
