China says it will shut down ivory trade by end of 2017
Source: AP
China says it plans to shut down its ivory trade by the end of 2017 in a move designed to curb the mass slaughter of African elephants.
The Chinese government will end the processing and selling of ivory and ivory products by the end of March as it phases out the legal trade, according to a statement released on Friday.
China had previously announced it planned to shut down the commercial trade, which conservationists described as significant because China's vast, increasingly affluent consumer market drives much of the elephant poaching across Africa.
"This is a game changer for Africa's elephants," said Aili Kang, the Asia director for the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society.
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the Poachers in Africa are decimating the elephant population, the bulls are being killed off for the ivory, this in turn drive the elephant population to have a weaker system , ie. the predominate male (bulls) are being killed
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151017-zimbabwe-elephant-tusker-trophy-hunting-poaching-conservation-africa-ivory-trade/
so now the chinese want to wait until the "end " of 2017, what hypocrites, not only are they admitting to this travesty, but they want to wait, there are around 600,000 of these magnificent creatures left, at the last count there was over 1,3 million. But when it comes to the giant panda, they are all for the what exactly to save the species, talk about a double standard, or am I missing something here
This is just outrageous
