After the international ban on ivory trade was passed last year, it has not been a few months since the ban came into effect, and the global ivory trade can be said to have collapsed, and there have been many fewer poaching cases in the past six months. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Ivory is not a vegetable in the wet market, and when poachers kill elephants to obtain ivory, black market traders, international traffickers, wholesalers and buyers ...... This round of trading takes a lot of time.

The temporary loss of confidence of international ivory dealers with large sums of money has led to a temporary halt in the entire chain, and even the price of "legal ivory" that the government is ready to sell has plummeted.

There are few international ivory dealers with clean buttocks, and they will not come on this occasion, and even agents dare not come, because the country where the ivory is bought must also be replied to by customs.

On the way to the warehouse of the National Wildlife Conservation Service in Botswana, Zhang Nan and Brown beside him talked about ivory.

"Boss, you're going to ship all the ivory and rhino horn to the United States?"

Just talking about Huaxia's amazing ivory carving technology, Brown was a little puzzled: why not send back to Huaxia the ivory and rhino horns that he might buy today.

"I have enough ivory at home in China, and Brown, sometimes I don't know what the laws on wildlife products are in China, or if the United States is more clear. ”

Brown didn't reply: judging from the designer's idea, he thought that the boss really didn't know because the law was too complicated.

In fact, Zhang Nan didn't think about the current law at all, but he couldn't figure out how the law would change in the future.

I remember a time when I could buy a small ivory "tusk pendant" that was enough to go to prison, and sometimes the whole ivory carved ornament could be traded in the open light.

I couldn't understand it in my previous life, so don't touch it, I won't take it back.

The U.S. law in this area is much simpler, at least until 2016, when the legal ivory trade was banned, and ivory obtained from hunting in African hunting grounds could be brought back to the U.S., but the amount was limited.

But no matter how restricted, there is always a pair of people, and there are always a few crazy people who go hunting in Africa and kill a few elephants at a time, so the restrictions on ivory in the United States are actually relatively loose.

As for the lack of skilled ivory and rhino horn carvers in the United States, it is not a problem: ivory is the raw material, and in many cases the hoarding of raw materials is more valuable than the finished product.

If you really like it, just invite a few masters from China to the United States - ten years later, there are many top carvers who can't find ivory in China.

Brown was still reading a copy of the Botswana Wildlife Service in his hand, he didn't know anything about ivory, but he wasn't a conservationist.

This trip to Brown is not to play with you, you need to be familiar with the auction process.

There is not a single photograph on the document, just a bunch of numbers indicating how much ivory was seized from poaching groups and how much was removed from elephants that died of natural causes.

But it's just the numbers, and it's not all true: the Authority people are cunning and don't separate the two different ivory at all.

Because the price of these two types of ivory is not the same.

The most expensive are blood teeth, which are the teeth taken from the heads of poachers or live elephants that have been legally hunted in hunting grounds, and this tooth is relatively ruddy in color, so it has the highest price.

The tusks obtained by elephants after natural death are called pink tusks - the quality of blood tusks can still be removed when they die, such as the pair of huge tusks given by King Moshari Tu belong to this category.

And from the ivory that has been turned into a skeleton, or even after many years of wind and sun in the wasteland, this quality is not good.

These are two types of ivory in the Wildlife Service warehouse, and there is a third type in the international market, called bleached ivory, which is the ivory that has been bleached and processed, and has the lowest quality and price.

If you want to buy together, you will come here as big buyers, and you must have a formal identity.

For example, Zhang Nan was present this time, but the buyer was Mr. La Buse Brown and the chief appraiser of Xingchen Jewelry Group, a person who didn't understand ivory at all, and purchased for the jewelry group.

Does Zhang Nan know ivory very well?

At most, it's okay, and I've just gotten some hands.

But even the uninitiated, the ivory is still recognized, and the difference between African and Asian ivory may be misunderstood, but at least it will not be obscured by imitation ivory and mammoth ivory.

Well, there are no mammoth tusks in Botswana.

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Arrive at the Bureau of Protection warehouse, where the gate is guarded by armed police officers with FAL rifles.

The lead of the convoy was a staff member of the Authority, and several armed guards took a look at it and let it go.

In an ordinary warehouse, Zhang Nan walked in with Brown, Guan Xingquan, Alyosha, and Lin Ming, and the others could only wait outside.

There is a big difference in the light inside and outside, and the bodyguards wear special sunglasses to prevent this from happening. Zhang Nan didn't have the habit of wearing sunglasses, and his eyes were a little uncomfortable when he went in.

Then I heard Brown let out an "oh"!

Unconsciously waited for Zhang Nan to see the situation in the warehouse clearly, and was also a little shocked.

Thousands of tons of gold have been seen in front of the big scene, and this will be 40 tons of ivory in front of you, this visual impact is not bad at all!

A pile of 5 tons, surrounded by arcs, is like a big mantou mountain!

There is only the weight, but not the quantity. Zhang Nan saw the guards standing next to him, and stretched out his hand to hook it.

The man walked here, and when he saw the stick in Zhang Nan's hand, he bent down slightly and bowed his head.

"Chief Allen?"

Zhang Nan nodded.

After a few conversations, it turned out that the caretaker was a Tswa tribesman, and the Tswa people in Gaborone had been rumored about the new chief in the past two days, and the newspaper had also published a photo of Chief Alan Changnan.

Although Zhang Nan is not the chief of the Tswa people named Tato, Tato should maintain great respect for Zhang Nan - if it is his own chieftain, then this Tato is not a matter of bending down slightly and bowing his head now, he needs to half-bend down to answer the chief's question.

As for the foreigners, it is necessary to maintain sufficient respect for a Tswa chief with a scepter in his honor.

Zhang Nan knows these things, so he can directly hook his hand and call someone over, as long as he is not arrogant and has a very casual attitude.

As a result, this is a person from "his own tribe", Zhang Nan's attitude has improved a lot, and he asked with a smile: "Tato, how many tusks are here?"

My own people.

"There are about 8,000 tusks, and we don't know the exact number, but the warehouse is only about weight. About 500 kilograms of rhino horn over there, measured in 50 kilograms, is basically white rhino horn. ”

Tato answered all questions, and did not dare to keep secrets from the chiefs of his tribe.

500 kilograms of rhino horn means that at least 100 rhinos have been hunted.

"How much of the ivory is poached?"

Tato heard Zhang Nan's words, looked left and right before whispering: "More than ninety percent." ”

The news is good.