On Friday, the Dallas Zoo hosted Toss the Тusk, an event in which people can surrender illegal-to-sell wildlife products like elephant ivory and tiger skin...
Toss the Tusk is an event where people can surrender illegal-to-sell animal products like elephant ivory to stifle the market for poaching.
Through programs at the Dallas Zoo, there are ways you can help. The United States is a major hub for wildlife trafficking, and Dallas is the fourth-largest U.S. city for illegal wildlife and wildlife product trade activity.On Friday, the zoo hosted Toss the Тusk, an event in which people can surrender illegal-to-sell wildlife products like elephant ivory and tiger skin rugs to get them off the streets and, over time, shrink the market for the products of poaching and wildlife trafficking.
This is the first year the Dallas Zoo has hosted one, and it’s the last stop in the 2023 series after events held at zoos in San Diego, St. Louis and Oakland, Calif. The event featured education booths outside the the zoo where people could surrender products and a press conference by the elephant enclosure with appearances by representatives from the zoo, the Association of Zoos, U.S. Fish and Wildlife and Texas Parks and Wildlife.
The Wildlife Trafficking Alliance works with U.S. Fish and Wildlife to put on Toss the Tusk, and the relinquished products are sent to the agency’s National Wildlife Property Repository in Colorado. The repository stores about 1.4 million items for use in public education, law enforcement training and research.
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