UK antique dealers challenge new law against ivory artefacts

About 55 African elephants are killed for their ivory every day and their tusks turned into carvings and trinkets.

About 55 African elephants are killed for their ivory every day and their tusks turned into carvings and trinkets.

Now, antique dealers in the United Kingdom are challenging a new law which criminalises trade in almost all ivory artefacts, even when the ivory is from elephants killed many years ago.

Al Jazeera’s Charlie Angela reports from central London.