Between 2000 and 2013, 33 tonnes of illegal ivory were seized in the city. Since, according to a 2015 WWF report, only one in 10 illegal wildlife shipments is detected by customs, this is only a ...
In response to this announcement and to mark the end of the first phase of the trade ban, Colman O’Criodain, WWF’s Policy Manager for the Wildlife Practice, comments: “China is the world's largest ...