Prince William orders destruction of Buckingham Palace ivory as part of conservation campaign

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38. As an archaeologist and historian, I find this problematic

I can't see the use of destroying artistic and cultural materials from the royal collections as a viable political and ecological statement.

Now if we are talking about stocks of raw ivory, I can get behind this.
Artistic and cultural material can have a wide range of provenances that may or may not have been exploitative in the modern sense.

Was the ivory used in a 200 year old artifact collected from a dead animal? was the rest of the carcass used by local groups as food and resources? Is the ivory from a mammoth? A walrus?
Making blanket statements like this without including nuance is just setting William up as an unthinking fool.