Ivory ban? Here?

Apparently so. From a report by something called The International Fund for Animal Welfare:

investigators compiled advertising and sales data from 47 Hawai‘i-based retailers and individual sellers engaged in the online trade of elephant ivory and related wildlife products, including walrus tusks, whale teeth and bone, mammoth ivory, and hippopotamus teeth. They found a total of 4,661 products in stock or for sale, with an overall value of more than $1.22 million, over a six-day period. The vast majority of this inventory (85.5%) was elephant ivory.

It’s not entirely surprising that Hawai’i would be a through-point for exporters, but I’m a little surprised there’s as much retail trade in ivory as this seems to indicate. It looks like the legislators were too, since they approved this in committee by unanimous vote.