Hong Kong is under international pressure to speed up a full ban of the ivory trade, as a wildlife trafficking adviser for the US president criticised the government’s five-year action plan as too slow.
Patrick Bergin, chief executive of the African Wildlife Foundation, urged the Hong Kong government to speed up measures and end the business in one or two years. “The future of elephants and the future of ivory are really in the hands of the people and the government of Hong Kong,...
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