Ivory trade in Hong Kong and China

Three-year-old white rhino Wasinda has a temporary hide covering his open wounds, before being treated by Saving the Survivors vets at a private game farm in Clocolan, South Africa, in September 2017. The vast majority of rhino horn poached in South Africa is for the market in China and other East Asian countries. Photo: EPA-EFE

Sotheby’s made it three, but it’s time for one voice on rhino horn

Following our recent Hong Kong Elephant Week – where we, in partnership with the African Wildlife Foundation, brough

27 Nov 2018 - 5:12am 2

The two sides of Hong Kong's wildlife trade

On the trail of ivory trade in Hong Kong

20 Nov 2018 - 3:31pm

Yao Ming, Chinese basketball star and Wild Aid Ambassador, with northern white rhinos at the Ol-Pejetta Conservancy in Nanyuki, Kenya, on August 11, 2012. The Chinese government’s recent decision to reverse its ban on rhino and tiger products sparked an international outcry. The government then announced that the implementation of the new policy would be delayed. Photo: AFP

Did trade war influence China’s decision on rhino and tiger products?

15 Nov 2018 - 8:15pm 2

James Mwenda stands next to Najin, one of only two remaining female northern white rhinos, in their paddock in Nanyuki, Kenya. Photo: Tony Karumba/AFP

He tended to last male northern white rhino. He has a message for China

12 Nov 2018 - 11:24am 12

A ranger takes care of Sudan, who was the world’s last male northern white rhino, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia county in Kenya in May 2017. After Sudan’s death in March 2018, there are only two females – Sudan’s daughter and granddaughter – of the subspecies left in the world. Photo: AP

Rhino horn move hurts China’s image on saving endangered species

2 Nov 2018 - 7:33am 2

Tour of local schools featuring those who see illegal poaching and its effects up close in Africa could help reduce demand endangering the species

Empathy and ivory: Hong Kong charity teaches youth to halt trade

13 Oct 2018 - 4:02pm

US First Lady Melania Trump feeds a baby elephant at The David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi on October 5, 2018, as she pays a one-day visit to the country during her solo tour of Africa promoting her children's welfare programme. Photo: AFP

Melania Trump feeds baby elephants as Kenya visit begins

5 Oct 2018 - 7:01pm 1

Loophole in Singapore law allows for illegal trade in ivory

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A handout photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) shows an aerial view of a dead, poached elephant lying in a National Park in South Sudan on July 10, 2015. Photo: Agence France-Presse

Who is killing Africa’s elephants? DNA identifies three crime cartels

29 Nov 2018 - 12:52pm

A seizure of 790kg of ivory valued at about HK$7.9 million at Hong Kong International Airport. Photo: Nora Tam

Delay on ban of ivory in Hong Kong may encourage poaching, study shows

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David Beckham and Yao Ming, actress Lupita Nyong’o, Chan and DiCaprio, and now Po Ping, are ambassadors for WildAid campaigns against the illegal trade in animal parts, from ivory to rhino horn, tiger bone and shark fins

Po from Kung Fu Panda lines up with five superstars to save animals

10 Aug 2018 - 6:17pm

Adventurers in northern Russia are on the hunt for ivory from extinct woolly mammoths in the melting permafrost. Once excavated, the tusks are sold to dealers in Hong Kong as a replacement for elephant ivory

Back from the dead: can hunt for mammoth ivory save elephants?

10 Jul 2018 - 7:21pm 1

Some of the seized ivory. Photo: Handout

HK$2.7 million worth of ivory seized by Hong Kong customs officers

4 Jul 2018 - 8:31am 1

The 3.1kg of suspected endangered rhino horn was discovered in the 21-year-old man’s checked luggage. Photo: Handout

Man arrested for smuggling HK$620,000 worth of rhino horn into Hong Kong

18 Jun 2018 - 4:34pm 1

Hong Kong Customs displays seized ivory in August 2013. The haul of 1,120 ivory tusks, 13 rhino horns and five pieces of leopard skin was found inside a container ship which arrived from Nigeria. Photo: Sam Tsang

Hong Kong’s role in illegal wildlife trade is shameful

11 Jun 2018 - 8:00pm

The seized suspected rhino horn and suspected worked ivory at Hong Kong International Airport. Photo: Information Services Department

HK$1.2 million of suspected rhino horn and ivory seized at airport

18 Jun 2018 - 2:28pm 1

From surveillance planes to witch doctors, conservationists and park rangers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, are exploring every option in a desperate fight to save its rhinos, whose horns are worth more than their weight in gold

Chinese demand for rhino horn pushing species to extinction

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Some 2,000 wild elephants are thought to be left in Myanmar. Photo: Xinhua

China’s demand for elephant skin decimating Myanmar population

24 Apr 2018 - 10:52pm

A Chinese man has been jailed in the Netherlands for smuggling five rhino horns and other contraband through Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. He was flying from South Africa to Shanghai when the horns were found in his luggage. Pictured: one of the world's last two female northern white rhinos in Kenya last week. Photo: Xinhua

Shanghai-bound Chinese rhino horn smuggler jailed by Dutch court

7 Apr 2018 - 12:53am 3

Zimbabwe first lady Grace Mugabe is being accused of smuggling ivory to China among other nations. Photo: AFP

Has Mugabe’s wife Grace been smuggling ivory to China?

25 Mar 2018 - 9:29pm

David Beckham, Lupita Nyong’o, Britain’s Prince William are among the celebrities to have joined charity WildAid’s drive to change attitudes towards the selling of endangered animal parts

Jackie Chan, Yao Ming back ad campaign against illegal wildlife trade

14 Mar 2018 - 12:44pm 1

Paul McIntosh with an orphaned black rhino at Lewa during filming of Running Wild – it has since returned to the wild.

Ex-pilot urges travellers to donate Asia Miles to fight wildlife crime

6 Mar 2018 - 6:13pm

Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, feeds inside his enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Photo: Xinhua/TNS

Northern white rhino on the edge of extinction as last male on Earth falls ill

3 Mar 2018 - 4:36pm 1

But for red pandas taken to Laos from China, things are less black and white

Good week for bald men in Japan and ‘menstrual man’ in India

9 Feb 2018 - 8:51pm 4

His recent report, published by Save the Elephants, found that Laos is the fastest-growing illegal ivory market in the world – supported mostly with Chinese funds

Murdered: investigator who persuaded China to ban ivory trading

6 Feb 2018 - 9:38pm 8

Hong Kong customs display a seized cargo of tusks. Photo: Dickson Lee

Why Hong Kong’s ban on ivory trade is such a big deal

2 Feb 2018 - 10:00am 7

The sale of ivory will be completely banned by 2021. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

Hong Kong approves elephant ivory ban in landslide vote

29 Nov 2018 - 12:52pm 11

Police process suspected wildlife trafficker Boonchai Bach. Photo: AP

‘Like one of the Corleones’: Thai police arrest wildlife trafficking boss

20 Jan 2018 - 8:44pm 1

Ivory that is imported legally into Hong Kong before 1990 can still be traded but is regulated. Photo: AFP

His job was to protect animals. Now he’s quit over illegal ivory sale

10 Jan 2018 - 10:31pm 9

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