“Elephant poaching in India may increase as China plans to open its domestic market for limited sale of ivory products after a UN committee gave its consent, experts have said. ” - The Times of India
“The decision by a global arbiter on endangered species to allow China to import backlog stock of ivory from Africa may be the death knell for Kenyan elephants.” - The Standard
“Coming out of the 14th Conference of the Parties (CoP14) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) last year in The Hague, two things were certain: firstly, that Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe would be allowed to sell registered stocks of ivory in the near future and, secondly, that a nine-year moratorium on any further ivory sales would come into effect following the sales.” - Daily Dispatch Online
“Animal support groups fear for elephants in India and Africa following the British government’s official backing to China to buy ivory. The government voted in China’s favour at the UN, despite protests from its own MPs. The vote, at a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), gives China the right to buy ivory auctioned by four southern African countries, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.” - Thaindian News
“Conservationists have condemned a move to allow China to buy huge amounts of ivory.” - Sky News
“News broke last night that China will be allowed to buy legal African stocks of ivory in a one-off sale. The announcement was criticised by conservation groups - including the International Fund for Animal Welfare - who fear that China’s poor record in controlling the ivory trade could open the doors to illegal elephant poaching.” - New Scientist
“Conservationists yesterday attacked a decision by the international community to allow China to buy stockpiles of elephant ivory saying it would lead to more elephants being killed in Africa.” - The Guardian
“The world trade in ivory, banned 19 years ago to save the African elephant from extinction, is about to take off again, with the emergence of China as a major ivory buyer.” - The Independent
“An elephant is hoisted into the Chongqing zoo in Chongqing municipality June 25, 2008.” - Yahoo! News Photos
“Paintings by elephants? Yes! And the huge mammals with their powerful trunks and floppy ears have even had a showing of their own, in Beijing. The elephant’s trunks are applied as distinctive brushes.” - CCTV International
“The United States is the world’s second-largest retail market for elephant ivory products, behind only China, a new study says.” - National Geographic News
“Rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo believe that rising demand for ivory in China is to blame for an unprecedented wave of elephant poaching in one of the country’s war-torn national parks.” - May 6th, 2008
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“China, one of the world’s largest traders in illegal ivory, is vying to buy up South Africa’s massive elephant ivory stock which has built up over several years as the result of a worldwide ban.” - IOL
“In addition to sharing a border and the Mekong River with Laos, Yunnan province also shares China’s last herd of Asian elephants, which in recent years has dwindled to only 400 elephants. The herd lives in nature reserves near the border between China and Laos.” - GoKunming
“China and Laos reached an agreement to protect wild endangered Asian Elephants that live along the border between the two countries, during their annual meeting, held currently in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, Xinhua reported yesterday.” - china.org.cn
“An elephant has killed a man in a Chinese nature reserve where an American tourist was earlier severely injured, the state news agency Xinhua said.” - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
“An American tourist was seriously injured after he was apparently attacked by wild Asian elephants roaming in a nature reserve in southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Thursday, officials confirmed on Sunday.” - Xinhua
“A male elephant from southwest China’s Yunnan Province has been cured of its addiction to drugs and will soon return to the Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest in Yunnan.” - China.Org
