Posted by: Sandy Steinman | December 30, 2016

China Bans Its Ivory Trade

The New York Times reported

China announced on Friday that it was banning all commerce in ivory by the end of 2017, a move that would shut down the world’s largest ivory market and could deal a critical blow to the practice of elephant poaching in Africa.

Read full story at  Bans Its Ivory Trade, Moving Against Elephant Poaching – The New York Times

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