China Is Getting Rid Of Its Ivory Trade

Source: www.newsy.com - Friday, December 30, 2016
Watch Video China's  government says  it's finally getting rid of the country's ivory trade once and for all. The international ivory trade  was banned  in 1989, but China has one of the largest domestic markets left in the world. The country's now planning to  phase out  all ivory processing and sales by the end of 2017. SEE MORE: The US And World Took Key Steps For Animal Conservation In 2016 That's important  for conservationists  because legal ivory markets often  fuel demand  for poaching and the illegal ivory trade. And poaching is still devastating elephant populations in Africa. The  Great Elephant Census  estimated the African elephant population dropped 30 percent from 2007 to 2014, to around 350,000 elephants. Similar blanket bans on ivory trading were adopted this year by  the U.S.  and  Hong Kong , two major markets for legal and illegal ivory trade.

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