re: A problem in Brazil

Hong Kong is beginning to burn it’s massive, 30 ton stockpile of confiscated ivory, adding to the 14 tons already destroyed by France, the US and China, in an effort to undercut the market of illegal ivory. If Brazil would do the right thing and block the exportation of these illegally cut woods, confiscate known stockpiles, and put perpetrators in jail it would do a lot to help undercut that market. Setting up a system of authentication of legal harvesting available to buyers would help, as well and, if there is already such a system in place, the onus is on buyers to purchase only legally cut wood,