Title: Ivory's ghosts : the white gold of history and the fate of elephants /
Authors: Walker, John Frederick.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Elephants.; Wildlife conservation.; Ivory; Ivory industry Corrupt practices.; Elephants Africa.; Ivory Economic aspects Africa.; Ivory industry Africa History.; Ivory industry Corrupt practices Africa.; Poaching Africa.; Wildlife crimes Africa.; Wildlife conservation Africa
Abstract: A historical examination of the ivory trade, its significance in cultures around the world, and the ban instituted in the 1980s to save the African elephant looks at what is to be done with the growing stockpile of ivory recovered from elephants who have died from natural causes.
Contents: Prologue: 1898 -- pt. 1. Shapes in tusks. -- Mammoth teeth -- Tribute and treasure -- The master carvers' medium -- pt. 2. Ivory under the saw. -- Piano keys and billiard balls -- "A tooth of ivory and a slave to carry it" -- Ivory hunters -- pt. 3. The elephant dilemma. -- Researchers and poachers -- The ivory ban -- Elephant dreams, elephant realities -- Epilogue: 2007.