Ivory trade in Hong Kong and China

Hong Kong announced in June a plan to end the legal domestic ivory trade. Photo: Reuters

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22 Oct 2016 - 11:04pm 2

A Kenyan ranger stacks confiscated ivory to be set alight. Photo: Reuters

Ivory markets on borrowed time after United Nations agrees resolution to shut down trade

3 Oct 2016 - 10:08pm 1

Patrick Bergin, chief executive of the African Wildlife Foundation. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

‘The future of elephants is in the hands of Hong Kong’: top wildlife advocate turns up heat on city over ivory trade

24 Sep 2016 - 10:44pm 9

The Environment Bureau last week announced its timeline for implementing a blanket ban on all domestic trade in ivory – including legal stocks – by 2021. Photo: AFP

Destruction of Hong Kong’s 28-tonne stockpile of seized ivory is complete, officials say, as they eye total ban on the trade

1 Jul 2016 - 11:08am 3

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. Photo: Nora Tam

Hong Kong should ban the trade in ivory sooner than 2021

28 Jun 2016 - 11:05pm 1

Ivory carvings and crafts on display in a store in Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan. Photo: Dickson Lee

Five years to ban Hong Kong ivory trade is too long, lawmakers argue

28 Jun 2016 - 8:03am 3

Green group WWF-HK wants all ivory trading to stop in 2018. Photo: Dickson Lee

Hong Kong green group urges government to bring forward total ivory ban to 2018

24 Jun 2016 - 10:14pm

These children may well get their wish granted in 2021. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Controversial ivory trade to continue for five more years before full ban imposed

27 Jun 2016 - 6:16pm 18

Loh motioning during the interview focusing on the city’s ivory trade. Photo: BBC

‘Can we stop this?’: senior Hong Kong environment official halts BBC interview about ivory trade

29 Apr 2016 - 4:06pm 32

An aerial view of a dead, poached elephant in a national park in South Sudan. Photo: AFP/Wildlife Conservation Society

Hong Kong’s ivory traders don’t deserve any compensation

25 Mar 2016 - 11:36am

Elephants roam the Amboseli National Park in Kenya. The very survival of the species is now at stake. Photo: Reuters

Tusk force: Carving out a better future for elephants in the fight against wildlife trafficking

2 Mar 2016 - 1:26pm

<p>Administration to review maximum penalties for illegal trading in endangered species, seek a ban on elephant hunting trophies passing through Hong Kong and expand prohibition to pre-1989 stocks of ivory</p>

Hong Kong steps up battle against illegal ivory trade: government to push for import and export ban, set timeline for end of ‘legal’ sales

22 Feb 2016 - 7:17pm 1

Rosie, one of the quarantine detector dogs under the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, demonstrated how to detect ivory in luggage. SCMP Pictures (UNDATED HANDOUT)

Sniffed out in five seconds: Hong Kong’s detector dogs on the scent of ivory smugglers

29 Jan 2016 - 9:30am

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Hong Kong ivory dealers call on government to buy up stock if trade banned in city

14 Jan 2016 - 11:33pm 4

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Making the ivory trade extinct: CY Leung’s call for Hong Kong ban hailed by conservation groups, slammed by local traders

14 Jan 2016 - 7:19pm 8

Dr Paul Shin, Chairman of the Endangered Species Advisory Committee of Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, holds up a jar of incinerated ivory residue at a press conference. Photo: EPA

Hong Kong takes the world closer to ending ivory's bloody trade

24 Jan 2014 - 11:01pm 1

Ivory pieces spew out of the rock-crushing machine, in Denver, the United States. Photos: Alex Hofford; Steve Oliver Taylor; Katrina Shute

Crush course: How Hong Kong's schoolchildren are pushing for seized ivory destruction

8 Jan 2014 - 3:19pm 1

Edward Grace, right, Deputy Assistant Director for Law Enforcement for the US Fish and Wildfire Service destroys six tons of confiscated ivory at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge on November 14, 2013 in Commerce City, Colorado. Photo: AFP

US officials crush 6 tonnes of ivory in bid to end illegal trade

15 Nov 2013 - 6:25pm 1

The ivory tusks were found in three containers, wrapped up and hidden beneath bags of soya beans. Photo: David Wong

Customs seize 769kg of ivory tusks hidden in soya bean containers

4 Oct 2013 - 8:44am 3

Emile N'bouke (in red) under guard as police show ivory seized from him. He is said to have killed tens of thousands of elephants. Photo: AFP

Conservationist Zhuo Qiang urges China to ban ivory sales

11 Aug 2013 - 3:05pm 8

Chinese ivory smuggler caught in Kenya fined less than US$1 a piece

27 Mar 2013 - 3:12am

A shop displaying ivory in Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: EPA

Build a monument to illegal ivory trade

23 Mar 2013 - 2:55am

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