Elephants belong to the national first-class protected animals. Trafficking in ivory is suspected of violating Article 34 1 of the Criminal Law, which constitutes the crime of illegally purchasing, transporting and selling precious and endangered wildlife products.

Second, the filing standards

According to the standards of jurisdiction and filing of forest and terrestrial wildlife criminal cases of the Ministry of Public Security of the State Forestry Administration, the term of imprisonment of ivory is not determined by weight. If finished products have been made, those with a value of 654.38+10,000 or more are major cases, and those with a value of 200,000 or more are particularly major cases. If the finished product has not been made, it is a particularly serious case involving an ivory. Illegal acquisition, transportation and sale of precious and endangered wildlife products, in any of the following circumstances, is "serious":

(a) the value of more than one hundred thousand yuan;

(two) illegal profits of more than fifty thousand yuan;

(3) There are other serious circumstances.

Illegal acquisition, transportation and sale of precious and endangered wildlife products, in any of the following circumstances, is "particularly serious":

The value is more than 200,000 yuan, and the illegal profit is more than 100,000 yuan, and there are other particularly serious circumstances.

Extended data:

According to the standards of jurisdiction and filing of forest and terrestrial wildlife criminal cases of the Ministry of Public Security of the State Forestry Administration, the term of imprisonment of ivory is not determined by weight. If finished products have been made, those with a value of 654.38+10,000 or more are major cases, and those with a value of 200,000 or more are particularly major cases. If the finished product has not been made, it is a particularly serious case involving an ivory.

Ivory is a white hard object. The main component is dentin, which is similar to bone. In a narrow sense, it refers to the tusks of male Asian elephants, African elephants and mammoths. In a broad sense, it can also refer to the tusks or teeth of hippos, wild boars, walruses, whales and other animals.

Ivory was a valuable material in ancient times, which was used to make tooth carvings, dentures, fans, dice and so on. In modern times, it is used as ornaments or utensils, such as tooth carving, billiards, dice, keys, mahjong, buttons and so on. After the appearance of plastic, it replaced ivory in many fields? However, some luxury goods still use ivory because it is rare.

Ivory has a long history as a high-grade ornament because of its warm and delicate material and special color. The market effect makes elephants on the verge of extinction.

In order to protect elephants from being killed, 1973, authorized representatives of 2 1 countries were ordered to sign the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which strictly restricted the ivory trade. China acceded to the Convention on 198 1. However, because ivory trade is a very important economic source for some African countries, and in order to inherit traditional culture such as tooth carving, the Convention approved Japan to become a legal importer of ivory in 2008.

In order to expand the scope of banning ivory products, China temporarily banned ivory trade. The legal import and export of ivory was prohibited on March 20, 20 16, and was lifted on February 30, 20 19 19 3 1 year.

The chemical composition of teeth or tusks of all mammals is the same, so the "ivory" materials from different animals are basically the same. Different animals may have slightly different ivory colors. However, it is easy to distinguish which animals' teeth contain different chemical structures, but it is possible to observe the chemical composition particles with a discriminator or a microscope.

Teeth and fangs are a substance. Teeth are special structures for chewing. Tusks are slender teeth that stick out their lips. They evolved from teeth and are generally used as defensive weapons. Most mammalian teeth consist of root and crown.

Teeth and tusks have the same structure, which consists of pulp, pulp cavity, dentin, cementum and enamel from the inside out.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wildlife Protection Law