Analysis by Wild Life Risk, a Hong Kong-based advocacy organisation, suggests the city’s legally held ivory stocks should have been exhausted by the mid-2000s. Yet data from licensed ivory holders shows their supplies have declined at a much slower pace – despite all the intercepted illegal ivory and poaching, the growing mainland markets for ivory and increasing numbers of mainlanders visiting Hong Kong during the period.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 06:13:14 +0000
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