DYING FOR IVORY.

Reports on the ban on trade of all ivory products due to the threat of extinction of elephants in the 1980s. Efforts of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) to end the poaching; Efforts of countries where elephant populations rose in the 1980s to be able to sell with limits; Questions as to the best way to manage elephants in Africa. INSET: Out of the jungle into the pot.