Ivory seizures prompt calls for China to end domestic trade | Environment | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Well over half of illegal ivory ends up in China, according to estimates presented at the meeting. China introduced a robust certification system to identify legally sold ivory in 2008, when it was allowed by Cites to receive ivory from a legal sell-off of stockpiles from four African countries. Since then, however, the regulatory system has broken down, with investigators finding illegal ivory on open sale even in remote parts of China
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"We would like to see a total ban on ivory sales including domestic trade in China. As long as there is a legal trade, you have a way of laundering illegal ivory," said Mary Rice of the Environmental Investigation Agency which has studied the illegal ivory trade in China.
