Ivory trade threatens Asia’s elephants
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The illegal ivory trade in Vietnam is threatening the survival of Southeast Asia’s dwindling elephant population, the BBC has reported. Wildlife monitoring organisation, Traffic, has found that ivory prices in Vietnam are higher than anywhere else in the world, indicating rising demand, the report said.
There are thought to be fewer than 150 elephants left in the wild in Vietnam, where ivory trading was officially banned 16 years ago.
The report said that the worry is that traders are plundering elephant populations in Laos to satisfy demand in Vietnam and China.
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