Public hearings have commenced as part of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement’s inquiry into the trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn. We spoke to Zara Bending, Associate at Macquarie University’s Centre for Environmental Law and Board Director of the Jane Goodall Institute Australia about the illegal ivory and horn trade crisis, the issues at the crux of the current Parliamentary inquiry, and what the Centre for Environmental Law and Jane Goodall Institute Australia are hoping the result of the inquiry will be.