From today, ivory is banned in China. The biggest step in history to save elephants
A historic ban on the buying and selling of ivory comes into force today in China, long the world's largest importer of elephant tusks.
China is taking step after step to eradicate the ivory trade. From today, 31 December 2017, the ban on buying and selling ivory comes into force. All experts describe it as a decisive move to reduce the slaughter of elephants, which are now at risk of extinction precisely because of their magnificent, majestic tusks.
The demand for ivory in Asia has for years been fuelling a massacre of hundreds of thousands of elephants at the hands of African poachers. Every year – especially in recent years! – some 30,000 appear to be killed. There are 350,000 left across Africa. At this rate, they will be extinct within ten years.
China's ivory market provides the final settlement in a long and cruel economic supply chain that begins on the plains of sub-Saharan Africa and flows through smuggling operations in South-East Asia. In Africa, ivory has become a source of funding for armed conflicts, taking on a role similar to blood diamonds that are traded for money and then weapons, and it even finances terrorism. The New York Times reported in 2012 that experts say up to 70% of illegal ivory ends up in China.
In China, until now, the sale of tusks, ivory and carved objects crafted from ivory purchased before the 1975 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) was still permitted, provided they were accompanied by certificates. This clause has not only proved ineffective, but appears to have been positively harmful. It encouraged buying and selling rather than limiting it.
Instead, since the beginning of this year the announcement of the ivory trade ban has already led to an 80% fall in seizures of illegal ivory entering China and a two-thirds drop in raw ivory prices, according to the conservation group WildAid. "It's the biggest step ever taken towards reducing elephant poaching," said Peter Knights, CEO of WildAid.
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China's ivory ban and the geopolitics of neighbouring states: the role of Hong Kong
The Chinese ban on buying and selling ivory from 31 December 2017 has been greeted with enthusiasm by activists around the world, who nevertheless warn that Hong Kong, China's special administrative region, remains for now an obstacle to eradicating elephant poaching.
The new sales ban in China does not, that is to say, apply to the former British colony, which has the largest retail ivory market for over 150 years. It should be noted, however, that this important transit hub has (had) over 90% of its customers from mainland China, whose behaviour will have to adapt to the fact that from today trading and reselling ivory in China is prohibited.
From 2003 to the present, approximately 40 tonnes of illegal ivory have been intercepted in Hong Kong, representing only around 10% of what is believed to have actually been smuggled, WildAid stated in a document addressed to the municipality in May. The municipality, however, set a timetable for the ivory trade ban last year, with a five-year phase-out period. A final vote on the ban is expected in early 2018.
Chinese conservationist Zhou Fei, head of the WWF's Traffic programme in China, indeed believes that the Chinese ban could act as a catalyst for the closure of ivory markets across Asia.
Ivory prices in Vietnam and Laos
The price of raw ivory in Asia has fallen sharply since the Chinese government announced plans to ban the ivory trade across the entire national territory. Poaching, however, is not declining in parallel.
Undercover investigators from the Wildlife Justice Commission have visited traders in Hanoi over the past three years. In 2015, raw ivory was offered at an average of $1,322 per kg, but by October 2016 that price had fallen to $750, and by February of this year prices were 50% lower, having plummeted to $660 per kg.
Traders are complaining that the ivory business has become very "difficult and unprofitable" and are saying they want to get rid of their stocks, according to a report cited by the Guardian. Worryingly, others are stockpiling in the hope — which we trust will prove vain — that prices will rise again.
However, the Kenya-based conservation group Save the Elephants stated this year that neighbouring Laos has expanded its retail market more rapidly than any other country.
Also according to Save the Elephants, the production of blood-stained ornamental objects has been growing in Vietnam over the past decade as well. The country is therefore now home to one of the largest illegal ivory markets in the world, with most of the tusks coming, unsurprisingly, from Africa. Although ivory carving has not historically been regarded in Vietnam as a prestigious art form in the way it is in China, the number of carvers appears to be on the rise.
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src=\"/api/files/legacy/protesta-giovani-cinesi-avorio.jpg\"/>\n\u003c!-- \u003c/picture> -->\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- \u003cpicture> -->\n\u003cimg alt=\"Chinese-Customs-officers-examine-ivory-tusk-and-crocodile-skins-found-in-a-container-containing-imported-aluminum\" data-src=\"/api/files/legacy/Chinese-Customs-officers-examine-ivory-tusk-and-crocodile-skins-found-in-a-container-containing-imported-aluminum.jpg\" src=\"/api/files/legacy/Chinese-Customs-officers-examine-ivory-tusk-and-crocodile-skins-found-in-a-container-containing-imported-aluminum.jpg\"/>\n\u003c!-- \u003c/picture> -->\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- \u003cpicture> -->\n\u003cimg alt=\"Il commercio dell'avorio precedente alla Cites ha prosperato in Cina e Hong Kong dal 1975 e gli attivisti ambientali da tempo affermano che ha stimolato la domanda di tutto l'avorio.\" data-src=\"/api/files/legacy/zanne-elefante-controllate-in-cina.jpg\" src=\"/api/files/legacy/zanne-elefante-controllate-in-cina.jpg\"/>\n\u003c!-- \u003c/picture> -->\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- \u003cpicture> -->\n\u003cimg alt=\"sequestri-cinesi-zanne-elefante\" data-src=\"/api/files/legacy/sequestri-cinesi-zanne-elefante.jpg\" src=\"/api/files/legacy/sequestri-cinesi-zanne-elefante.jpg\"/>\n\u003c!-- \u003c/picture> -->\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- \u003cpicture> -->\n\u003cimg alt=\"yaoming-per-gli-elefanti\" data-src=\"/api/files/legacy/yaoming-per-gli-elefanti.jpg\" src=\"/api/files/legacy/yaoming-per-gli-elefanti.jpg\"/>\n\u003c!-- \u003c/picture> -->\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003clabel>\u003c/label>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003cimg alt=\"From today, ivory is banned in China. The biggest step in history to save elephants\" src=\"/api/files/legacy/theme/keyboard-icon.svg\"/>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cnav>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan title=\"espandi\">\u003c/span>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan title=\"successiva\">\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan title=\"precedente\">\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/nav>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch2>The history of China's ivory ban\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For years, Chinese government officials have been dogged around the world, at every international meeting, by activists who rebuke them over the number of elephants killed across Africa, with the international community blaming China for this \"ivory holocaust\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, has been unable to escape either the conferences on nature conservation and elephants in Africa or the complaints from foreign leaders about the \u003cstrong>ills of the domestic legal ivory trade\u003c/strong>. For years, China deflected criticism by citing its long cultural heritage and its incremental policies, such as the ban on importing carved ivory objects two years ago. To no effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>3,000 years ago\u003c/strong>. The ivory trade ban that comes into force today is perhaps all the more significant given that China has always maintained that ivory carving is an integral part of its cultural history, dating back more than 3,000 years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>2,000 years ago\u003c/strong>. China actually had its own species of elephant, but – ironically – it became extinct more than two millennia ago.\u003cbr/>\nIvory was used to carve statues of deities and medallions featuring garden scenes, which were highly sought after by court officials during the imperial era.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>1974\u003c/strong>. Such was the apparent prestige of ivory that in 1974 China presented the UN with a one-and-a-half-metre sculpture depicting a railway bridge over a forest, carved from eight elephant tusks.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>2002.\u003c/strong> A \u003ca href=\"/james-morgan-reportage-wwf-bracconaggio\">decade of extreme hardship for elephants\u003c/a> begins. The survival of elephants on Earth is severely threatened by the ivory market, 70% of which flows into China. Central Africa loses more than 60 per cent of its \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0059469\">\u003cb>African forest elephants\u003c/b>\u003c/a> in the period between 2002 and 2011 alone.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>2007\u003c/strong>. As recently as 2007, ivory carving was classified as a national cultural heritage of China.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>2012\u003c/strong>. China's role in global ivory markets unfortunately grew considerably during these years, as wealthy Chinese people began once again to seek out ivory as a status symbol. Chinese companies also became increasingly entrenched, with a growing number of employees, on the African continent. Soaring ivory prices helped fuel the \u003cstrong>massacre of more than 100,000 elephants over a three-year period, a rate that chips away at the survival chances of the estimated 400,000 elephants remaining in the wild\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>2014\u003c/strong>. Just as it became clear that China had become the primary culprit in elephant poaching, attitudes within the country began to shift. Surveys in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou – the country's largest cities – found that 95% of respondents wanted the government to ban the ivory trade to protect African elephants. \u003ca href=\"/yao-ming-elefanti-wildaid\">Campaigns such as that of Yao Ming, who promoted a documentary and visited elephant sanctuaries in Africa\u003c/a>, contributed to this collective awakening. \u003ca href=\"/cina-avorio\">A public burning of elephant tusks\u003c/a> was even organised.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2015. Yang Feng Glan, considered the link between African poachers and ivory smugglers trafficking to China, is arrested in Tanzania. The 66-year-old Chinese woman is alleged to be directly \u003cstrong>responsible for the deaths of at least 350 \u003ca href=\"/kenya-elefanti-africani-bracconaggio\">elephants\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and the smuggling of thousands of ivory tusks.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>2016\u003c/strong>. US president Barack Obama honours a promise made during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, and \u003ca href=\"/divieto-avorio-elefanti-africani-stati-uniti\">imposes a near-total ban on ivory sales in the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>2017\u003c/strong>. China decides to follow suit and, since March, officials have closed 67 carving workshops and retail shops, while a further 105 are now in the process of closing. It has been an impressive reversal, a step far greater than conservation campaigners had dared to hope for.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n","category":"ambiente","excerpt":"A historic ban on the buying and selling of ivory comes into force today in China, long the world's largest importer of elephant tusks.","first_seen_at":"2026-07-16T19:02:41.986180+00:00","id":"10fe306296af202d","image":"/api/files/legacy/divieto-avorio-cina.jpg","published_at":"2017-12-30T21:36:06+00:00","reading_time_min":9,"scraped_at":"2026-07-16T19:02:41.986081+00:00","slug":"divieto-avorio-cina-2017","source":"lifegate.it/sitemap","tags":["avorio","cites","elefanti","Elefanti africani"],"title":"From today, ivory is banned in China. The biggest step in history to save elephants","image_caption":"The mutilated body of an elephant is a macabre but familiar sight to rangers in Africa. Meanwhile, the haul of tusks has been taken to the port of Mombasa in Kenya, where corrupt customs officials allow the cargo to pass through to China. Thousands of kilometres from the killing, in a Chinese factory a craftsman works the ivory to create ornaments and jewellery. This journey of ivory is not fiction but happens regularly. Now it could come to an end, with the hope that it is not too late.","categories":["ambiente","biodiversita"],"embeds":[],"wp_content_hash":3485558340534790180,"wp_id":128426,"sanitized_at":"2026-08-03T11:13:43.570437+00:00","source_lang":"it","cleanup_v1_at":"2026-08-06T16:49:48.462372+00:00","updated_at":"2026-08-07T04:25:41.637293+00:00","author_slug":"stefano-carnazzi","focus_keyword":"grande passo","seo_bulk_v1_at":"2026-08-07T04:25:41.637306+00:00","seo_description":null,"seo_title":null,"seo_kw_fix_v1_at":"2026-08-08T08:29:04+00:00","links_rewritten_at":"2026-10-23T12:54:29.150315+00:00","ai_related":["33ddd095-9503-41a1-9e60-58f52731ccb0","cd77d65f-0fb9-498a-a8ed-47a7c5280f3b","8a399204-7979-4658-a007-cf06667ddb21","f8bf960e-f045-41b6-9caa-1e9dc8b5a520"],"ai_questions":["Come vengono falsificati i certificati Cites per l'avorio legale?","Quale ruolo gioca il porto di Mombasa nel contrabbando di avorio?","Come finanzia il traffico di avorio i gruppi terroristici africani?"],"ai_summary":"Dal 31 dicembre 2017 la Cina ha introdotto il divieto totale di compravendita dell'avorio, una misura storica per contrastare il bracconaggio degli elefanti africani. Il mercato cinese assorbiva fino al 70% dell'avorio illegale mondiale, alimentando una strage di circa 30.000 elefanti l'anno. 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