Think Twice - Don't Buy Wildlife Souvenirs

Elephant hair bracelets, shark tooth earrings and porcupine quill lampshades are popular with tourists to South Africa, but they are deadly for our wildlife. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw) has launched a "Think Twice - Don't Buy Wildlife Souvenirs" campaign to encourage tourists to help stop the killing of wildlife for curios. South Africa's airports will show infomercials that begin with an image of dead wildlife circulating on a luggage carousel. Porcupine lampshades need 140 quills, which means that eight porcupines were killed to make it. Quills sell from about R2 each in a retail outlet to about R6 for a bundle of 12 through a dealer.