pEnvironmental activists joined with New York state officials to crush more than one ton of ivory items in Central Park on Thursday, August 3, including ivory tusks, trinkets, statues, jewelry, and other decorative items.ppNew York banned the sale of elephant and mammoth ivory and rhinoceros horns in 2014, and state authorities have brought action against 16 corporations and 31 people while seizing thousands of ivory pieces valued at more than $10 million, according to a press releasea.ppThe items crushed on Thursday represented 100 elephants’ worth of tusks, and had a value of about $8.5 million, the release said. One item alone was worth $850,000, a news report saida.