Australia is no longer promising to ban domestic trade of elephant ivory

You can’t sell a feather from a native bird without a permit in most parts of Australia. But you can sell elephant ivory, through social media, without proof it has been ethically sourced. That is despite African and Asian elephant species being in danger of extinction from poaching for their tusks. About $1.2 million worth of ivory objects were advertised in Australia for sale over a six-month period last year through online stores, auction sites and Facebook Marketplace. A new study, published in Biological Conservation, found less than 1 per cent of the 1,698 ivory listings from 70 vendors were…