Danish auction house stops ivory sales after protests
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Agence France-Presse
Denmark’s second largest auction house said Monday it had stopped selling ivory products amid a social media storm over its planned sale of two tusks belonging to an African elephant.
The nearly two-metre (80 inch) tusks, weighing 28 kilogrammes (62 pounds) each, were to have gone under the hammer for a total of 150,000 kroner (20,107 euros, $21,344) on Wednesday …
GlobalPost – Nov 23, 2015 at 06:20 PM
www.globalpost.com/article/669…
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