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Chinese ivory traders find haven online: TRAFFIC
BEIJING: China's booming e-commerce websites have carried thousands of advertisements for illegal wildlife products including ivory, rhino horn and tiger bone, a wildlife trade monitoring network said Tuesday (Mar 3).
More than half of such products offered online in recent months are ivory, the British group TRAFFIC found in a survey of 15 Chinese retail websites over a two-year period.
Conservationists say China is the world's largest consumer of illegal ivory, with skyrocketing demand fuelling the slaughter of tens of thousands of African elephants each year.
TRAFFIC found that surveyed websites were hosting thousands of advertisements for illegal wildlife products as of the end of 2014. It had consistently found "around 1,500" new advertisements for such items every month for the last two years, it said in a report.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/chinese-ivory-traders/1692252.html