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Where Can You Find Ivory?: Traditional and Alternative Sources of Ivory
When people talk about sources of ivory, the first (and sometimes the only) thing that comes to mind is elephant tusk. While it is true that most of the ivory used in making jewelry comes from elephant tusks, other ivory sources are being explored and used as well. In fact, ivory comes from a myriad of sources, which fall into two main groups: genuine ivory and imitation ivory.
Genuine Ivory
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The most common source of ivory in the world for many years is elephant ivory. Nowadays, the decreasing number of elephants (due to widespread slaughter for tusks), the growing concern for depleting elephant population, the ban on ivory trade, and the rising cost of ivory have led to the use of natural alternatives to and imitations of elephant ivory. One of the popular substitutes for ivory is the vegetable ivory. It is a special seed from Hyphaene Phytelephas, a palm [...]

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What comes to your mind when you hear the word ivory? More often than not, people associate the term with the color that resembles white. But did you know that the real ivory refers to the tusks of animals such as mammoths and elephants? To give you a general overview of this prized organic material, here is a list of the different types of ivory.
1. Walrus ivory
The upper canines of walrus, which measure 2 feet long, are a source of [...]

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Little is known about the history of ivory carving in Myanmar, where it is called sinswe pan pu in Burmese language. Pan pu refers to wood carving, which is one of the pan sai myo or ten arts.
Existing master carvers still exist only in Mandalay, Myanmar. Today, acquiring raw ivory is too difficult to sustain the ivory business. This is due to worldwide pressure on ending ivory trade because of the near-extinction of both Asian and African elephants.
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Both the endangered Asian and African elephants are now listed in Appendix I of the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). This is because they are severely overhunted as a result of illegal ivory trade. Ivory comes from the tusks of elephants.
Remaining Asian elephants now lived in small numbers in Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Sumatra. Their population is between 29,000 and 44,000. The African elephant population is now 600,000 down from 1.2 million in the 1970s. [...]

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