New research measures impacts of China’s elephant ivory trade ban

Mongabay
Oct 23, 2018, 6:01 pm267 pts
When China banned all commercial trade in elephant ivory and shuttered its domestic ivory markets at the end of 2017, conservationists applauded the measure. But they also warned that if China’s neighbors didn’t take similar action, the ivory trade would simply shift to those countries. New research finds…

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