Rubber Boom Threatens Yunnan’s Elephant Haven
While Chinese demand for ivory threatens Africa’s elephants, Yunnan’s 300 Asian...
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LatestKenya Extradites Alleged Ivory Kingpin to China
The AP reports on the apprehension and extradition of an alleged Chinese ivory smuggler in Kenya...
China’s Six-Ton Ivory Crush Debated
The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer reports on the destruction of more than six tons of...
Of Quackery, Rhinos and Tigers
Last week’s Economist noted an almost thirty-fold increase in the poaching of South African rhinos between 2008 and 2011. As with the ongoing surge in elephant poaching, much of the blame has fallen on Chinese demand. Last...
BBC’s Panorama on China’s Appetite for Ivory
BBC current affairs programme Panorama examines China’s central role in the booming illegal ivory trade, which has fuelled elephant poaching on a scale not seen since the 1980s: As demand for ivory rises in the Far East,...
Will China Kill All Africa’s Elephants?
A lengthy investigative report in the Spectator on the poaching and destruction of African elephants in Tanzania points to Chinese smugglers: The next day we met Salim and another dealer, Daudi, at a petrol station. They got in...
Elephants Are Slaughtered For Chopsticks
Rob Crilly reports in Nairobi, from The Times: Rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo believe that rising demand for ivory in China is to blame for an unprecedented wave of elephant poaching in one of the country’s...
Wang Zhuoqiong: Tuskless elephants evolving thanks to poachers
From China Daily:
More male Asian elephants in China will be born without tusks because poaching of tusked elephants is reducing the gene pool, a recent study predicts.
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