Ivory trophy imports banned for a year
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China slapped a one-year ban on African ivory hunting trophy imports, the state forestry authority said yesterday.
The State Forestry Administration said in a statement posted on its website that it would “temporarily prohibit” trophy imports until October 15, 2016, and “suspend the acceptance of relevant administrative permits.”
It did not give further details, though Xinhua news agency said a government review is under way on whether to extend a separate one-year ban made in February on imports of African ivory carvings.
Within China, the trade and sale of ivory carvings are legal if the items were imported before the country joined the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1981, or come from a stock of 62 tons of raw-ivory bought from four African countries in 2008 as a one-time exemption.
The government releases a portion of that stockpile each year to ivory carving factories.
China crushed 6.83 tons of confiscated ivory early last year in its first such public destruction of any part of its stockpile. However, the country still ranks as the world’s biggest end-market for ivory, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
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