This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...

When the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, allowed a one-off chance for China to bid on a 108-ton stockpile of ivory amassed from natural ...

HONG KONG (AP) — An environmental watchdog group says its investigation has found that a little-known town in southern China is a major hub for ivory smuggling by organized criminal gangs. The ...

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"We talked about the fact that legal ivory trade becomes a loophole that illegal trade moves in," Sally Jewell, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, told Reuters after meeting Chinese Vice Premier Wang ...

JOHANNESBURG — China says it plans to shut down its ivory trade by the end of 2017 in a move designed to curb the mass slaughter of African elephants. The Chinese government will end the processing ...

LONDON, Nov 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzania has emerged as the world's largest exporter in the illegal ivory trade, largely fuelled by growing appetite for elephant tusks in China, said a ...