Return of the ivory trade

 

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Elephant numbers across Africa were estimated to have crashed from 1.3 million in 1980 to 625,000 in 1989.

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The world trade in ivory, banned 19 years ago to save the African elephant from extinction, is about to take off again, with the emergence of China as a major ivory buyer.