Ivory sale/import/export and CITES

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Originally Posted by mariusgmioc

This is like a symphony of absurdity!

I can easily understand that some customs officers have no more brains than a goose, but I would have expected more from a judge. I guess I was wrong in my expectations!

We must have entered the last stages of decay of our civilisation since common sense appears to be consistently replaced with idiocy!

Your comment reminds me the film Idiocracy....

My parents have many ivory objects inherited from my grandfather who worked for a long time in Africa (before 1970). They are not to be sold, but the question arises as to the legality of the possession of such objects.