The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

After the international ban on ivory trade was passed last year, it has not been a few months and the ban has not yet taken effect. The global ivory trade can be said to have collapsed, and there has been a lot less poaching in the past six months.

Ivory is not a vegetable in a vegetable market. After poachers kill elephants to obtain ivory, black market merchants, international traders, wholesale buyers...it will take a lot of time for this round of transactions.

The international ivory dealers who were holding large amounts of banknotes temporarily lost their confidence, which caused the entire chain to temporarily stop, and even the "legal ivory" that the government was preparing to sell was the price plummeting.

There are not many international ivory dealers who have clean butts. They will not come on this occasion, and even the agent dare not come, because the country where the ivory bought is going to have to be returned by the customs. Hit the muzzle.

On the way to the warehouse of the National Wildlife Conservation Agency of Botswana, Zhang Nan and Brown next to him were talking about ivory.

"Boss, you want to ship all the ivory and rhino horn to the United States?"

I just talked about Huaxia’s amazing dental carving craftsmanship. Brown didn’t understand: Why not send back the ivory and rhino horn that I might buy today.

"I have enough ivory in China at home, and Brown, sometimes I don't know what China's laws on wildlife products are, or the United States is more clear."

Brown didn't reply: From the designer's point of view, he thought the boss really didn't know because the law was too complicated.

In fact, Zhang Nan didn't think about the current law at all, but didn't know the changes in the legal provisions in the future.

Really don't understand! I remember that there was a time when buying a small "fangs pendant" made of ivory was enough to go to jail, and sometimes the ornament carved from the whole ivory could be traded in a fair manner.

I couldn't understand it in my previous life, so don't touch it at all, I won't take it back to the head office.

The U.S. law in this area is much simpler. At least until 2o16, when the legal ivory trade is completely banned, the ivory obtained from hunting in African hunting grounds can be taken back to the U.S. It is only limited in quantity.

But no matter how restricted, there will always be one person for one pair, and there are always a minority of lunatics who kill several elephants at a time when hunting in Africa. Therefore, the United States' restrictions on ivory are actually relatively loose.

As for the lack of skilled ivory and rhino horn carvers in the United States, it is not a problem: ivory is a raw material, and the stock of raw materials is often more precious than the finished product.

If you really like it, you can invite a few masters from Huaxia to the United States. Ten years later, there are so many top engravers who cannot find ivory in Huaxia.

At this time, Brown was still looking at a copy of the information provided by the Botswana Wildlife Administration. He did not understand the treasure of ivory, but he was not an animal protectionist.

This time, Brown is not going to play with him, he needs to be familiar with the auction process.

There is no photo at the top of the document, only a bunch of numbers, indicating how much of the ivory was seized from the poaching syndicate, and how much was the ivory taken from the naturally dead elephant.

But that is the number, and I still can't believe it all: the people in the bureau are still very cunning, and they have not separated the two different ivory at all.

Because the prices of these two ivory are different.

The most expensive is the blood tooth, which is the tooth taken from the head of a poacher or a living elephant hunted in a hunting situation. The color of this tooth is relatively ruddy, so the price is the highest.

The ivory obtained by elephants after their natural death is called powder tusks-the quality of blood tusks can be obtained when they are taken off immediately after death. For example, the huge pair of ivory presented by King Moshari belongs to this category.

And from the ivory that has become a skeleton, and even the ivory that has been exposed to the wind and the sun for many years in the wasteland, the quality is not good.

These are two types of ivory in the warehouse of the Wildlife Administration, and there is a third type in the international market, called bleached ivory, which is the ivory after bleaching, with the lowest quality and price.

If you want to buy it together, the big buyers will come here, and they must have a formal identity.

For example, Zhang Nan was here this time, but the buyer was Mr. Xi Appraiser from Lebs-Brown and Star Jewelry Group, a person who didn’t know ivory at all, so he purchased for the Jewelry Group.

Does Zhang Nan know ivory well?

It's a good idea at most, and it's just a few hands-on experience.

But even if you are a layman, you still know ivory. The difference between African ivory and Asian ivory may be misunderstood, but at least it will not be blinded by imitation ivory and mammoth ivory.

Well, there are no mammoth tusks in Botswana.

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Arriving at the warehouse of the Protection Bureau, armed police guards with FaL rifles at the gate.

In the lead car of the convoy, there were officials from the Administration, and several armed guards glanced at them and let them go.

An ordinary warehouse, Zhang Nan and Brown, Guan Xingquan, Alyosha, and Lin Ming walked in. The others could only wait outside.

There is a big difference in light between inside and outside. The bodyguards wear special sunglasses to prevent this. Zhang Nan has no habit of wearing sunglasses, and his eyes are a little uncomfortable when he goes in.

Then I heard Brown say "Oh"!

Unconsciously, when Zhang Nan saw the situation in the warehouse, Xiao Xiao was shocked.

Thousands of tons of gold have been seen in the big scene in front of you, and this will be 40 tons of ivory in front of you, this visual impact is not bad at all!

A pile of 5 tons, surrounded by arcs ~www.readwn.com~ is like a mountain of big buns!

There is only weight in the data, but no quantity. Zhang Nan saw the guard standing on the side, and stretched out his hand.

The man came here, and when he saw the stick in Zhang Nan's hand, he slightly bent down and lowered his head.

"Chief Ellen?"

Zhang Nan nodded.

After chatting, it turned out that the guard was a member of the Tswa tribe. The Tswa in Gaborone had spread the news about the new chief in the past two days, and the newspaper also published a photo of Chief Alan Zhang Nan. .

Although Zhang Nan is not the chief of this Tswa named Tato, Tato has to maintain great respect for Zhang Nan-if he is his own chief, then this Tato would not bend his waist slightly and bow his head now. He needs to lean down halfway to answer the chief's question.

As for the foreigners, there must be enough respect for a Tswa chief who is upright and holding a scepter.

Zhang Nan knows these things, so he can directly hook someone over, as long as he is not arrogant and has a casual attitude.

As a result, this is a person of "own tribe". Zhang Nan's attitude has improved a lot. He smiled and asked, "Tato, how many ivory are there?"

My own person.

"There are probably 80 ivory roots. We don't know the detailed figures. The warehouse only pays attention to weight. About 5 oo kilograms of rhino horns there, in units of 5o kilograms, are basically white rhino horns."

Tato must answer all questions, and dare not keep secrets from the chiefs of his tribe.

5oo kilograms of rhino horns means that at least more than 100 rhinos have been hunted down.

"How much did poaching confiscated in ivory?"

Hearing what Zhang Nan said, Tato looked around and whispered, "More than 90%."

The news is very good.

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