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Rangers find unlikely sponsor

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China is the biggest market for ivory yet Chinese business people are funding the war on poaching
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World Wildlife Fund uses fake Singapore ivory store in awareness campaign

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The outlet called Ivory Lane purportedly offered items including earrings and necklaces for sale and had a well-produced website
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Paradigm shift as African countries throw their weight behind ivory ban

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The EU and UK are fuelling the illegal trade through their continuing sale of legal ivory items
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Corrupt officials to blame for ​illegal ivory trade, says Cites

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Research shows that legal sale of ivory increased smuggling by 71%.
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Legal ivory trade led to sharp rise in poaching

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The thinking behind the move was widely accepted at the time, and 'has only been proved wrong in hindsight' - researchers
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Outrage at Japan’s ivory sales

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Yahoo sold sold an estimated 12 tonnes of elephant tusks and fashioned pieces of ivory on its Japanese auction site
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Chinese officials went on illegal ivory ‘buying sprees’

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Officials who visited Tanzania with President Xi Jinping took advantage of the lack of security checks to buy large amounts of ivory, say activists.
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E-firm profits from slaughter of rare species

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Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce company that owns Play.com and Kobo, is the world's biggest online retailer of elephant ivory and whale meat.
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China aids Kenya in ivory poacher crackdown

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A Nairobi ivory bust – China's first wildlife crime arrest – was part of a month-long, international anti-trafficking operation.
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Woman caught with ivory at OR Tambo

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A 58-year-old woman has been arrested at OR Tambo International Airport in Gauteng for possession of 40kg of ivory.
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Hundreds of tusks intercepted en route to Cambodia

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Malaysian authorities say they have seized hundreds of African elephant tusks worth about $1.3-million that were being shipped from Kenya to Cambodia.
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