After years of negotiation with wildlife conservation groups, China's government has now set a timetable to end its legal ivory trade — March 2017.

China has announced a plan to phase out all ivory processing and trade by the end of 2017, the government said on Friday, a move that conservationists hope will stymie the mass killing – and ...

The wholesale price of raw ivory in China is reported to have fallen by almost two-thirds in the past three years, from $2,100 per kilogram in 2014 to $730 in February 2017. China had been the ...

As China grows richer, the demand is growing for elephant ivory smuggled from Africa. Despite occasional crackdowns and even prison sentences, it's not hard to find upscale Chinese shops that sell it.

Beginning in 2009, China has sold about five tons a year from its stockpile to licensed carving workshops, according to China’s top CITES official, Meng Xianlin.That means about 35 of the 73 ...

In China and Hong Kong, ivory is seen as precious material and is used in ornaments and jewellery. It's also sometimes used in traditional Chinese medicine. Some rich Chinese people think that ...

Animal rights activists are praising China’s announcement that it will ban the sale and trade of ivory by the end of 2017, but the news has also raised concerns that it will drive a much ...

China's move to ban the ivory trade will help protect other elephants hunted for their tusks. Elephant Nelly plays with a ball in Hodenhagen, Germany, June 10, 2016.

China's ivory crush is to be commended on a level having nothing to do with wildlife directly. As I discovered during my three-year investigation of the international ivory trade for National ...