Network Front | The Guardian: Elephant ivory price spiked as China VIPs snapped up thousands of kilos

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Elephant ivory price spiked as China VIPs snapped up thousands of kilos

Nov 6th 2014, 15:52, by Jonathan Kaiman in Beijing, and Adam Vaughan

Beijing dismisses scathing EIA report on wildlife trade which claims ivory haul of Xi Jinping delegates in Tanzania doubled price on illegal market

China has strongly dismissed claims suggesting that a Chinese delegation accompanying Xi Jinping to Tanzania last year purchased so much illegal elephant ivory that prices spiked.

According to a scathing report on the countrys illegal wildlife trade by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), business boomed when Xis delegation was in the capital city, Dar es Salaam, last March, doubling the market price of ivory to $700 a kilogram.

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Network Front | The Guardian: Elephant ivory price spiked as China VIPs snapped up thousands of kilos

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