Worldwide, law enforcement officials seized over 23 tons of ivory that was being trafficked on the black market.Officially, the trade in ivory was banned worldwide in 1989.
A large portion of the ivory was believed to have been headed for China. In Kenya, where a majority of the smuggled ivory is shipped out of Africa, about 90 percent of the ivory traffickers arrested at the airport are Chinese nationals.
Source: Geoffrey York, “Growing Chinese demand fuels booming trade in ivory,” Globe and Mail, June 19, 2012.
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