In fact, the calls for lifting the ban have even touched the Indian elephant. Staff at the India office of Traffic have discovered a recent increase in the number of Indian elephants killed by hunters. For the Asian elephant, among whom only the males grow the valuable large tusks, this creates an imbalance in the number of males and females, making propagation of the herds much more difficult.
甚至遠在亞洲的印度象也受開放風聲波及，野生物貿易調查委員會印度辦公室人員發現，近來印度象遭獵殺數量增加，對只有公象才能長出巨型象牙的亞洲象，恐將加重陰盛陽衰、族群難以繁衍的窘況。