Credit: Cathy Smith

Ban Australia’s domestic trade in ivory

Australia still permits the domestic sale of elephant ivory and rhino horn within our borders, even though international trade is banned. Items claimed to be 'antique' or 'second-hand' can still be legally sold, creating a loophole that allows illegally imported ivory or horn to find its way to market. It also sustains demand.

The ivory and rhino horn trade continues to drive poaching and puts elephants and rhinos at grave risk.

In 2019, the Australian Government promised to ban domestic trade in these products, and yet that promise remains unfulfilled seven years later. Countries like the United States of America, United Kingdom, and China have already acted. Australia must not fall behind.

Australians overwhelmingly support action. New national polling found that 95% of Australians support the Government delivering its promise to ban the domestic trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, while 97% believe introducing the ban is important.

It's time to close the loophole and end elephant ivory and rhino horn sales in Australia for good.

Australians have waited long enough. Send a message to the Australian Government and call for the promised ban to be delivered now.

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Mr

Murray

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Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

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Dear {contact_data~salutation} {contact_data~lastName},

I urge the Australian Government to introduce a national ban on the domestic trade of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn. 

Recent national polling found that 95% of Australians support the Government delivering its promise to ban the domestic trade in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn, while 97% believe introducing the ban is important.  

Despite this overwhelming public support, the Government's 2019 commitment to close this loophole has still not been delivered—seven long years later.  

Elephants and rhinoceros are running out of time: all three elephant species and four of the five rhinoceros species remain threatened by extinction, with illegal trade a key driver of their decline. 

Although international law already bans the elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn trade, domestic sales in Australia remain legal, creating a loophole that enables laundering of illegal ivory and horn, sustaining demand.  

Please act now to honour the commitment given at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and introduce federal legislation to ban the domestic trade of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn without further delay. 

Yours sincerely,
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