Slaughtering Of Elephants Is Soaring Because Of China's Demand For Ivory

 by MARK MEMMOTT


"For the first time in history," hundreds of millions of people in China are now wealthy enough to buy jewelry, combs and trinkets made of ivory and that's led to a huge spike in the illegal slaughtering of elephants in Africa, The New York Times' Jeffrey Gettleman said earlier today on Morning Edition.



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