China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017
For people wondering why it will take til the end of 2017, compare: the egg "industry" tosses all male chicks into blenders (yes, while alive), and have promised to stop doing it by 2020: http://www.vox.com/2016/6/9/11896096/eggs-chick-culling-ende...That's 3+ years, and hundreds of millions of baby birds shredded alive.