AKO Bicol Representative Rodel Batocabe is urging the environment department not to burn the intercepted ivory tusks and instead donate them to academic institutions and museums.
In an Interaksyon.com report Batocabe said the tusks should be used “to teach the public, especially the young generations, why ivory trade is banned.” The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) had earlier seized five tons of elephant tusks in a public park. The original plan was to burn the rare tusks, but different quarters opposed the plan.
The party list representative noted that the ivory tusks should not be likened to other “hot items” such as pirated cds or knock off bags which are destroyed so they can no longer be sold to the public.
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