https://www.scmp.com/rss/198330/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Twenty-six years ago, the world called time on the international trade in elephant ivory, after it had halved African elephant populations within 15 years. Now governments in the US, China and Hong Kong are finally closing the remaining loophole that allowed domestic trade to continue and facilitated a second ivory crisis that has recently been claiming 33,000 elephants a year. Hopefully, Japan, Thailand and other significant markets will soon follow suit and the elephants can recover. The... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1929964/hong-kongs-ivory-traders-dont-deserve-any-compensation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1929964/hong-kongs-ivory-traders-dont-deserve-any-compensation?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Mar 2016 03:36:36 +0000 Hongkong Airlines faces a passenger boycott unless it agrees to stop transporting dolphins on its cargo planes, animal welfare groups warned yesterday. The airline sparked outrage by flying five live dolphins from Osaka in Japan to the Vietnamese capital Hanoi on January 16. The creatures are suspected to have originated from Taiji, the area, featured in the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, where dolphins are rounded up and slaughtered in their thousands every year. A memo to airline staff... https://www.scmp.com/article/993747/airline-faces-boycott-over-dolphin-cargo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/993747/airline-faces-boycott-over-dolphin-cargo?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000