Japan's Lax Regulations Threaten Chinese Ivory Ban

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By David LeestmaDec 21, 2017, 8:11 am141 pts
Japan's failure to prevent illegal ivory exports could weaken China's coming ban on domestic ivory trade, conservationists said Wednesday. The warning—made by Traffic , a wildlife trade monitoring group—comes just more than a week before the Chinese government will ban ivory retail sales and follows the…

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