Thing of the past? Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images
China made a New Year’s resolution that caused elephant lovers around the world to rejoice: the government announced it will shut down its domestic ivory market this year.
Poaching experts estimate that up to . It is turned into statues and ivory trinkets, which are either sold as status symbols to its growing middle class or exported.
The news is a game changer, says elephant behaviour expert Joyce Poole. Poole’s finding that poaching destroys not just individual elephants but their family and…
