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The message was crushingly loud and clear: Stop the illicit ivory trade.

And to highlight it, the United States destroyed more than a ton of elephant ivory in New York’s Times Square on Friday.

Lawmakers, wildlife officials, conservationists and bystanders watched the ivory turn into sand-like powder as an industrial rock crusher descended on carvings and raw tusks.

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More than a ton of ivory crushed in Times Square

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