Animal-welfare organizations and MPs say they are disappointed by Ottawa’s lack of action on the import of ivory, saying Canada is lagging other countries
, including Britain and the United States, in protecting elephants and rhinos whose numbers have decreased rapidly over the past 40 years.
“Some populations of elephants, and at least two species of Asian rhino, are so reduced in number that if a ban saved a single individual animal, it would be worth it,” said Mr. MacKay. Michael Bernard, Canada’s deputy director of Humane Society International, urged the government to “move swiftly” and introduce a strict ban “as African elephants and rhinos are facing extinction within the next few decades and simply do not have any more time to wait.”
The African forest elephant is listed as critically endangered and the African savanna elephant as endangered under the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. In 2016, the U.S. announced federal regulations implementing a near complete ban on commercial elephant ivory trade.
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