{"id":10975,"date":"2015-10-25T06:08:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T06:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/?p=10975"},"modified":"2016-11-28T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:11:14","slug":"ivory-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/ivory-trade","title":{"rendered":"China Cedes To Pressure And Decides To Ban Ivory Trade Within A Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a6b39195b99473d6c9dd698db2668010\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:2px 0 2px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center>\r\n\r\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\nfunction ShorterThan(widthMax) {\r\n                if (screen.width < widthMax) {return true;}  \r\n                else {return false}\r\n    }\r\nvar LimitWidth = 728\r\nvar MobileZoneID = 348996\r\nvar DesktopZoneID = 348995   \r\n<!--\/\/<![CDATA[\r\n   document.MAX_ct0 ='';\r\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?':'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?');\r\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\r\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\r\n   if (ShorterThan(LimitWidth)) {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+MobileZoneID);} else {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+DesktopZoneID);}\r\n   document.write(\"&nodis=1\");\r\n   document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);\r\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\r\n   document.write (document.charset ? 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A US government official announced that the trade could end within the year.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A\u00a0big step in ending the poaching crisis<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">China is the home of the largest ivory market in the world. Authorities have resisted ending the trade in the past, making the argument that ivory carving was part of the country&#8217;s culture and is a status symbol. But people in China have since come to realize that it was damaging their reputation in Africa, where they are seeking to invest. They have recently demonstrated how committed they are to ending the trade. China and the U.S. have agreed to ban the imports and exports of ivory and to take a step in ending the domestic commercial trade. However, there will be one exception: domestic trade for items like musical instruments or antiques will be allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10977\" style=\"width: 707px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/1628_1godsivory_046.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"707\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/1628_1godsivory_046.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/1628_1godsivory_046-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/1628_1godsivory_046-85x57.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentstirton.com\/data\/photos\/1628_1godsivory_046.jpg\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">{adinserter CNP5}<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>One major obstacle<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hong Kong is a key platform in the global wildlife trade, particularly the trade of ivory from Africa to China. It has the largest retail ivory market in the world and makes a lot of revenue from Chinese tourists. Ivory is supposed to be taken from stockpiles from before the 1989 global ivory ban, but the figures show very little reduction in the Hong Kong stockpiles in the last few years. Authorities in Hong Kong are more reluctant to end the legal ivory trade and conservationists believe that they have not done enough to stop the illegal trade. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<strong>\u201cHong Kong has always been the ivory laundry of the world,\u201d Peter Knights, executive director of WildAid in San Francisco, said. \u201cThe moral imperative has shifted from China and the U.S., who are in a position to say they are going to close the ivory trade down, to Hong Kong to do the same.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10978\" style=\"width: 707px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/79717_990x742-cb1400012151.ngsversion.1424616760795.adapt_.768.1.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"707\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/79717_990x742-cb1400012151.ngsversion.1424616760795.adapt_.768.1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/79717_990x742-cb1400012151.ngsversion.1424616760795.adapt_.768.1-600x406.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/79717_990x742-cb1400012151.ngsversion.1424616760795.adapt_.768.1-85x58.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/content\/dam\/news\/photos\/legacy-new\/79717_990x742-cb1400012151.ngsversion.1424616760795.adapt.768.1.jpg\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>The ban needs to happen as quickly as possible<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/worldelephantday.org\/about\/elephants\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">World Elephant Daily<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the elephant population has fallen by 62% over the last ten years with only 400,000 left. By the next decade, it is possible that they will be extinct. It is estimated that 100 African elephants are killed every single day by poachers who seek ivory, meat and body parts. One of the biggest aspects fueling the poaching is the demand for ivory products in the Asian market. The site estimates that this makes the illegal ivory trade so profitable that it has led to the slaughter of tens of thousands of African elephants. Banning trade in China could help save the elephants from extinction.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10979\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/tanzania_elephants3.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/tanzania_elephants3.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/tanzania_elephants3-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/tanzania_elephants3-85x48.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howitworksdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tanzania_elephants3.jpg\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/elephant-poaching\">SEE ALSO:\u00a0Kenya Takes A Big Step in Protecting Elephants From Poaching.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has been under pressure to end its commercial ivory trade, which conservationists say contributes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,108],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China Cedes To Pressure And Decides To Ban Ivory Trade Within A Year<\/title>\n<meta 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