{"id":10460,"date":"2014-05-15T22:43:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=10460"},"modified":"2014-05-15T22:43:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:43:50","slug":"hong-kong-starts-destroying-ivory-stockpile-becoming-latest-to-send-anti-poaching-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/15\/hong-kong-starts-destroying-ivory-stockpile-becoming-latest-to-send-anti-poaching-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong starts destroying ivory stockpile, becoming latest to send anti poaching warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10461\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-HK_TST_night_Lock_Road.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10461\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-HK_TST_night_Lock_Road.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Conpezslisra \/ Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-HK_TST_night_Lock_Road.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-HK_TST_night_Lock_Road-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Conpezslisra \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HONG KONG\u2014Hong Kong started incinerating its nearly 30-ton stockpile of confiscated ivory on Thursday to show it\u2019s serious about cracking down on an illegal wildlife trade that is devastating Africa\u2019s elephant population.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities destroyed the first batch by burning a metric ton of elephant tusks and carved ivory figurines and bracelets in a rotary kiln.<\/p>\n<p>Destroying the 28-ton stockpile, which is one of the world\u2019s biggest, is expected to take until mid-2015. The fine dark grey ash left after incineration will be mixed with cement and lime and dumped in a landfill. About 1.6 tons of ivory will be kept for educational or scientific purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The destruction follows similar initiatives in the past year by Belgium, France, China, the U.S. and the\u00a0Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s stockpile has bulged as customs agents have intercepted a series of big shipments of smuggled ivory in recent years. The busts highlight the former British colony\u2019s role as a transshipment hub for ivory shipped from Africa to mainland China, where demand is growing because of rising incomes.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory can fetch up to $2,400 a kilogram in China, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which estimates poachers kill 35,000 elephants a year for their tusks, risking the animal\u2019s extinction in the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG\u2014Hong Kong started incinerating its nearly 30-ton stockpile of confiscated ivory on Thursday to show it\u2019s serious about cracking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}