ivory

Retail Asia02/01/2018

A ban on ivory sales in China, the world’s largest importer and end user of elephant tusks, takes effect on Sunday. Wildlife activists have described the move as a vital step towards reducing the slaughter of the endangered animals. It is estimated 30,000 elephants are killed by poachers in Africa every year. China has made […]

Retail Asia12/07/2017

One of Japan’s largest online retailers has banned the sale of ivory, closing a major marketplace for the controversial trade. Rakuten is accused of being the world’s largest online retailer for elephant ivory, but will now phase out its sale. The trade is legal in Japan for items imported before 1989 – but no new […]

Retail Asia02/04/2017

China, the world’s largest importer and end user of elephant ivory tusks, is shutting a third of its ivory factories and retail stores on Friday (March 31), the first major step ahead of a formal ban on ivory sales by the end of the year. China will shut 67 carving factories and stores with the […]

Retail Asia13/02/2017

Wong Lai-ngan hunches over a battered workbench, his electric rotary tool whining as he carves two phoenixes facing each other into a smooth white tusk. Decades ago, Wong’s canvas would have been elephant ivory. But since a 1990 ban on international trading, Hong Kong’s dwindling tribe of ivory carvers has switched to tusks of extinct […]

Retail Asia31/01/2017

At the end of last year, China announced a complete ban on its ivory trade and processing activities by the end of 2017. The news, a late Christmas gift to many conservationists, was greeted as a “game changer” by groups including the World Wildlife Fund, which says around 20,000 African elephants are being killed every […]

Retail Asia15/12/2015

The price of elephant ivory in China has fallen by almost 50 percent over the past 18 months, likely due to a shrunken demand in the country for illegally poached tusks, the Wildlife Conservation Network wrote this week in a blog post. Raw ivory in Beijing went from costing an average of $2,100 per kilo (about […]

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Ban on ivory sales in China to take effect on Sunday

Japan’s Rakuten retail site bans ivory sales

Hong Kong offers a loophole to China’s ivory ban

Hong Kong ivory trade faces uncertain future as bans loom

Why China’s ivory ban is a mammoth step towards saving the elephant

Price Of Illegally Poached Ivory Halves In China