China says it will shut down ivory trade by end of 2017

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5. Lets think about this for one moment..................

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