Conservationists had good reason to believe that the 1989 international ivory-trade ban would hasten the African elephants demise. So how was a small group of activists able to generate broad-based public support for the ban?
The Ivory Bandwagon
International Transmission of Interest-Group Politics
By William H. Kaempfer, Anton D. Lowenberg
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