{"id":34512,"date":"2016-12-20T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T09:52:44","slug":"9512-china-s-deadline-on-ivory-phase-out-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/9512-china-s-deadline-on-ivory-phase-out-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s deadline on ivory phase-out looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">China<\/span>&nbsp;is set to announce when it will close its legal ivory carving factories, 18 months after pledging to act.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">Last year, the world\u2019s largest market for both legal and illegal ivory&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/may\/29\/china-agrees-to-phase-out-its-ivory-industry-to-combat-elephant-poaching\">said it would shut down commercial sales<\/a>&nbsp;within the country. But did not set a timeline.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">At the time, conservationists described the announcement as the&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/may\/29\/china-agrees-to-phase-out-its-ivory-industry-to-combat-elephant-poaching\">\u201csingle greatest measure\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;in the fight to save elephants from poaching. Wildlife advocates have since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2016-08\/31\/content_26658806.htm\">urged Beijing to get on with the job<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">\u201cThe preparation for the domestic ivory trade ban is under way in China,\u201d Zhou Fei, head of the China programme at wildlife trade watchdog Traffic, told the <em>Guardian<\/em>. \u201cAccording to our information, most of the legal ivory vendors are developing alternative business. The ivory price of both legal and illegal ivory products dropped.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Legal ivory carvers in China use tusks imported during one-off, sanctioned sales from Africa. Advocates for the total ban believe it will discourage local demand for black market ivory and shut off smugglers\u2019 attempts to launder poached tusks into legal markets.<\/p>\n<p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cctv-america.com\/2016\/06\/07\/full-text-2016-china-u-s-strategic-and-economic-dialogue-strategic-fact-sheet\">bilateral announcement<\/a>&nbsp;with the US in July, China pledged to set a timeline for the phase out of its market by the end of this year. WildAid\u2019s executive director Peter Knights told the <em>Guardian<\/em> that he believed the government would honour that pledge.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">\u201cI think the Chinese government is serious about shutting down the domestic market in ivory in China,\u201d Wildlife Conservation Society ivory trade policy analyst Simon Hedges&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/live\/2016\/nov\/18\/live-qa-elephants-critically-endangered-how-save-them#comment-87991014\">told a <em>Guardian<\/em> Q&amp;A last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">\u201cOur government is serious upon any promise made to the world,\u201d said Wei Ji, an independent wildlife researcher who does consulting work for China\u2019s largest environmental non-governmental organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ivory carving is designated as \u201cintangible cultural heritage\u201d in China. The government wants to make the transition easy on those who make a living carving and selling ivory from existing legal stockpiles. The State Forestry Administration, which manages the ivory trade, has completed a feasibility study in which it interviewed many of the legal traders. But the results will not be made public.<\/p>\n<p>Wei said: \u201cThere is not much resistance from the Chinese public, because the legal market in China is relatively small. Only 34 manufacturers and 130 retailer shops are licensed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Isabel Hilton, founder of the&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/\">chinadialogue<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;website, told the <em>Guardian<\/em> Q&amp;A that the signal from the top of the Chinese government may not be as influential or effective as some campaigners believe.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">\u201cChina often resists legislation for as long as possible, then acts when the diplomatic costs become too high. But that is not the same as effective enforcement. China is a very big country, Beijing\u2019s reach is less effective than many outsiders imagine, and enforcement may not be a priority,\u201d said Hilton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The US state department has made strong representations to China to secure the commitment to shut down its local trade. With the US&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/jun\/02\/us-adopts-near-total-ban-on-commercial-ivory-trade\">following China\u2019s lead<\/a>&nbsp;this year and adopting a near total ban on the trade.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">But conservationists have raised concerns that Europe\u2019s expanding international ivory exports may undermine the diplomatic pressure for China to implement and police the shut down in a robust way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a concern among the western world that the longer that China leaves telling us how it\u2019s going to implement its plan, there is an increased danger that they might dilute the legislation that they were going to introduce, said Tusk CEO Charlie Mayhew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there is a concern that the lack of momentum from Europe, and in particular the UK, could provide them with an argument as to why they don\u2019t need to fully implement their plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Europe is the biggest legal exporter of ivory on earth. The number of tusks sold from member states jumped significantly in recent years.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/PDF\/?uri=CELEX:52016SC0038&amp;from=EN\">Traffic analysis<\/a>&nbsp;of the international trade database showed that the EU exported more than 300 raw tusks in 2013 and 2014. The EU has only ever sent more than 100 tusks offshore once in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">Chinese and Hong Kong buyers were the recipients of 92% of the tusks. The data also shows shipments of ivory carvings also jumped in recent years.&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/sep\/22\/conservationists-and-mps-call-for-a-total-uk-ban-on-ivory-sales\">Conservationists have also <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/sep\/22\/conservationists-and-mps-call-for-a-total-uk-ban-on-ivory-sales\">criticised<\/a>&nbsp;the UK for allowing antique ivory sales to continue.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">Following his&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/proginfo\/2016\/43\/hugh-and-the-ivory-war\">two-part BBC documentary on the ivory trade<\/a>, environmental campaigner and celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall called for the EU to cease its ivory exports.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">\u201cThere are now rumours that China might be backtracking, and that this may be partly because it is just not seeing international solidarity on this issue,\u201d he told the <em>Guardian<\/em>. \u201cIt really seems as if China is now saying, maybe we\u2019re not in such a hurry to do this, because the UK and other EU countries seem to be quite happy to sell their ivory to us.\u201d A petition on the&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/165905\">UK government website<\/a>&nbsp;calling for the closure of the domestic ivory market in the UK has already got nearly 80,000 signatures and a parliamentary debate will be triggered when it hits 100,000.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">At a recent wildlife trade convention meeting in South Africa, the EU&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/jul\/06\/african-wildlife-officials-appalled-as-eu-opposes-a-total-ban-on-ivory-trade\">voted as a bloc and helped defeat a motion<\/a>&nbsp;to put the African elephant on the highest level of protection.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-8d20777a-1c57-e194-e935-925a04d2a2b4\">The move was also opposed by some southern African countries where elephants are in their highest numbers, said Wei.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the international environment is at the moment the biggest challenge for China to take further action,\u201d he said. \u201cAlthough I have no idea of what and when the final decision of our government towards domestic market would be, the decision would come out and would most probably respect the will of the majority of the world and take different voices from range states seriously into consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>This article is republished from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/dec\/13\/elephant-china-set-date-end-ivory-factories\">Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparation is underway in China to ban the domestic ivory trade, following a 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