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Re:China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017 by pixelbill on Saturday December 31, 2016 @04:12PM (#13293176)
The GDP of the entire content of Africa is $2.39 trillion, just the USA alone has a GDP 7x their entire content. It would be roughly equivalent to bringing in $1.4 billion into the US economy.

Do you have any actual evidence to add to your argument? Or just more ignorant sarcasm?

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Re:China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017 by truth_sentinell on Saturday December 31, 2016 @07:02PM (#13293904)
And this guy thinks every buck goes directly into tribes and such. Reality check: that's not how the world works. They probably get peanuts -if they get anything at all-. Please stop being delusional and justifying non-sense with more non-sense.
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Re:China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017 by adamnemecek on Saturday December 31, 2016 @04:27PM (#13293256)
> Do you have any actual evidence to add to your argument?

No, just like you don't. The paper you posted doesn't cut it because it only discusses how much money was made, not the wellbeing of the fauna.

> $1.4 billion into the US economy.

So that's relatively nothing.

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