Beijing 2008 : rings made of ivory
On 16th July, 2008 in Geneva, three weeks before the opening of the Olympic Games, China was given authorization to act as a commercial licensed partner within the legal elephant ivory traffic. Thus, the biggest black market for ivory in the world will consolidate its position. Thousands of ivory retailers throughout China can hold their heads up high as they cooly welcomed the tourists of olympic games. Within a couple of months according to the CITES program (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), the price of 108 t of ivory stocks auctionned by South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe is expected to increase after China’s accreditation, Japan being till now the only legal candidate. As a matter of fact, little legal ivory is sufficient to launder a lot of illicit ivory and there is no doubt the price of ivory will skyrocket after China’s entry into ivory stock exchange.
Round Robin # 2 After the “old ploughs” from Carhaix, don’t miss the old railway line sleepers from Carnac
Round Robin n°2
The prehistoric metropolitan area of Brittany is being invaded by the recycling of dangerous wastes, breaking the law June 2nd 2003 which prohibits the reuse of creosote saturated railway line sleepers in the public domain. In good weather conditions, one can smell the odour of tar rising from fences and boarders, from street flower boxes, sleepers-menhirs and stairs at the Césarine park. Carnac is not the only town in Brittany or in France to use end of life railway sleepers prescribed by outlaw landscape gardeners but in Carnac it appears to be a festival.
