China pledges to phase out domestic ivory trade and protect elephants

For the first time ever, China has committed to phasing out the legal manufacture and sale of ivory. Conservation groups have applauded the measure as the single greatest effort in the fight to “save the last of the African elephants from poaching,” according to the Guardian. Recently, foreign diplomats watched 1,459 pounds of ivory symbolically destroyed and Zhao Shucong, the head of China’s State Forestry Administration said that China will strictly control the processing of ivory and the trade until the practice is eventually stopped.

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