it looks like after the culture has been using and selling ivory that it s getting to people. that must feel good for you and all the work that you ve been doing. the other thing that s happened is that recently, president obama said they would be ending ivory sales in the united states. it s public awareness and government action, a one-two punch which is what we need to save the elephants. the next indicator will be, will this spill over into other countries and what are those countries still buying ivory? well, we know in hong kong recently, we know that government changed and is looking at a ban at 90% of the hong kong population wants to see a ban on it. this has been an encouraging weekend for climate success and
a hong kong university poll shows a majority of people surveyed here support a ban of ivory sales, but it could take years before such a ban is put in place. precious time for africa s dwindling elephant population. john, we reached out to the hong kong government for comment about some of these allegations and received a response from hong kong s agricultural fisheries and sonar is vags department which insisted they ve taken serious measures to try to track down on possible smuggling such as conducting a stock check of all licensed ivory in the city, tearing out surprise npgs of licensed ivory shops and introducing a marking system, tamper proof hologram to track ivory. for those, again, who are urging that hong kong impose a complete
cnn, they re also cracking down, seizing 16.7 ftons of smuggled ivory in the last three years and introducing a more sophisticated tracking system to better regulate the sale of legal ivory. but one local lawmaker wants to shut down ivory sales altogether. while we can stop the buy, we can stop the killing, too. activists fear the largest living mammal to walk the earth could be extinct within a sen generation. a. if we don t stop it fast enough or soon enough, what will happen is you and me have to tell our next generation, our kids they are once upon a time there were elephants on earth. say no to ivory! some schoolchildren in hong kong have joined the campaign against the ivory trade.