Increased amounts of ivory from Africa are being smuggled from Myanmar into China, despite Beijing's introduction this year of a ban on legal ivory sales, according to a report published on Tuesday (October 2) by the wildlife conservation group Save the Elephants.
The ban on the sale of ivory in China, the world's largest importer and end user of elephant tusks, was cheered by wildlife activists as a vital step to reducing the slaughter of the endangered animals.
But the ban has not stopped wh…
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