Translation for 'ivory' from English to Serbian

ivory

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• asurus" to make ivory carvings. In Syria, the production of ivory items was at its maximum during the first millennium BC, when the Arameans made splendid ivory inlay for furniture.
• Killing elephants for ivory has been a major cause of the decline of the African elephant population since at least the 1970s.
• Ivory: In the past, ivory was the material of choice for making the handles of kris by the Malays.
• "Ivory Owl" is a carving created by Tom Akeya that features an owl carved from walrus ivory with mammoth ivory used for the eyes and baleen used for the pupils and beak.
• Ivory carving is one of the traditional industries of Sri Lanka.

• Her permission to collect and sell “wild” ivory ended in 1976 when trade in ivory was banned.
• Tagua nuts from South America are used as an ivory substitute since the natural ivory trade has been restricted worldwide.
• Satao was a victim of the illegal ivory trade where ivory is commonly poached and sold by terrorist organizations to China, which has the largest market for ivory in the world.
• French ivory is a synthetic material that is typically composed of pigmented cellulose nitrate and/or casein.
• He was one of the leading contemporary ivory carving artists.

• There has been little controversy in the decision to ban trade in Asian elephant ivory.
• While Laufer had detailed the Chinese end of the narwhal and walrus ivory trade, Richard Ettinghausen focused on the Arabic side.