BREAKING NEWS: CHINA TO BURN ILLEGAL IVORY!
An official release from China’s State Forestry Administration saying that China will soon burn a stockpile of illegal ivory!
The destruction of the ivory will be on MONDAY 6th JANUARY, and is a highly significant step towards ivory no longer being seen as a status symbol in the East.
UNEP Goodwill Ambassador Li Bingbing will be promoting the event via social media in China.
Please share widely! The world should know that China is making moves to protect Africa’s wild elephants!
(Thanks to Save the Elephants for bringing this to our attention)
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[…] Ivory destruction News reports surfaced this week that China will burn it’s ivory stockpiles on Monday January 6, 2014. We’ll look forward to more information next week. […]
I think this is a ploy of China and just big enough to placate people. While all the time they are sitting on mountains of ivory
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