RE: Hong Kong seems to be following China’s footsteps in banning ivory!
That's excellent news. Thailand has also been clamping down hard in the last few years. The airports are very keen about checking. Of course, a lot of this came about because traders here were passing African ivory off as Thai ivory (so very Thailand) and hence the govt. got involved.
Of course, we now just have the tiger temple to ban again and all the cruel animal shows and elephant rides etc etc etc....seeing the elephants in parks and tourist areas chained up waiting to give rides and doing the one fot to another foot rocking they do when bored is tragic.
At least we dont see the mhoots with their elephants roaming the streets at night begging anymore which is some progress I guess.
Really need the Chinese in Hong Kong to lead the way in this. Half the conservation problems in the world is due to chinese demand.
That's pretty much what happened in China and Hong Kong as well, but even more obvious that it is untrue, since the supply of ivory here is a lot lower.
But it's good to hear that Thailand is also cracking down on the ivory trade! I agree that China needs to step up and set an example here; they are really the ones responsible for most of the illegal wildlife products in the world.