Episode 3: The China Ivory Market | Battle for the Elephants

Our investigation is revealing insights into the ivory trade, which is causing elephant numbers to fall to lower levels than ever recorded. An international ban on trading ivory has been in place since 1989. But since then, the international body that governs the trade, known as CITES, has allowed two large auctions of stockpiled ivory.
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Our cameras were allowed into a luxury goods store showroom in Beijing, where Bryan Christy explains how those auctions complicate what's for sale legally and what's not.
Episode 3: The China Ivory Market | Battle for the Elephants
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[@TheWhimsicalFuzzwald]

Poor animals..why do the Chinese do things like this? Eating dogs, shark finning, etc. -_-

[@toku5829]

@Hail King Devin they eat everything except humans

[@chaoyang3496]

The truth is that there are more US hunters in Africa do this business.

[@trystar-sl1mi]

Why are you being so specific to China? South Korea, Vietnam and many other countries in Asia eat extreme things. It’s their culture. If you can’t respect that then don’t say anything. You wouldn’t like if someone on the street told you that what you did or your traditions were wrong.

[@bellayani6340]

Majority of the people in China don’t even know what’s happening, do you think the sales people and the people buying it know what is legal and not? In the video, he literally says that. You can’t blame all “Chinese people”. There are so many cultures that do controversial things and most of the people that “do this” is trying to make ends meet for higher richer people that pay for it. I’m sure there are things from your culture that is messed up but you just don’t know about it or participate in it. Also, the whole eating dogs thing is such a racist stereotypical thing, not all Chinese people “eat dogs”.

[@user-bi6gj9xl1o]

99%Chinese do not Eating dogs

[@ashokkashyap5548]

No matter how beautiful the teeth of the elephant make you beautiful, but roaming in the forest can never be more beautiful than the elephant. Please protect this lovely beautiful animals. To be honest, we are not animals, we have become animals.

[@yoyosingh1088]

r/ihadastroke

[@tm2jetfire]

Please upload the interview with the self-proclaimed Buddhist ivory collector. I recall it came shortly before or after this part in the program. When he says something along the lines of "The elephants smile when they die because they are happy to give their ivory to Buddha's glory," it's simply remarkable.

[@bobby.theone7309]

Yea...those elephants suffer dearly and he is hateful to justify his collection by claiming otherwise. Many have their hacked off while alive and take days to slowly die, he is a anti-buddhist is what he is.

[@juanflopez1387]

SAVE THE ELEPHANTS AND SHARE THIS VIDEO

[@evilnaruto9229]

Ivory is beautiful But it’s not worth killing an animal and wiping it off existence…….

[@oonanie]

Continues to happen to this day

[@zhishanbaby]

Every country has done its fair share of atrocity to the animals.

[@Light131991]

we should save the elephants

[@bengoku1978]

I Agree

[@MrViperFM]

Thumbs up for this :)

[@vannesaQuintela]

Hello po

[@hazing420]

interesting

[@jagannathprasaddasrapuria1820]

All ivories are not blood ivories.what about ivory from elephant dying in due course,i.e. old age or disease

[@beatrizboccheciampe4941]

HOW VERY SAD. SO MUCH PAIN FOR SOME CRUEL GREEDY IGNORANTS WITHOUT PITY

[@giftedsoul13]

I wonder if there is some way to make the ivory undisireable before it even leaves the elephant. Maybe some kind of dye or marking on the ivory, then if it was taken and sold, it would be obviously illegall.

[@nikhil.sgowda980]

only for two ivory or 2 sculpture whole elephant is killed

[@lastoutlaw3882]

Really disgusting

[@darksyde0418]

It's normal for people and other animals to hunt but what does bother me and some people is when those people hunt for sport

[@vannesaQuintela]

Hello po Im terested having one of this

[@wilfredkatcheak8688]

Are permafrost fossils with ivory illegal ?

[@bahjo7279]

Human are more beastic than any wild animal we can possibly think of....these kind of videos gave goosebumps for those who care both human & nature relationship in need of one another....

[@sabarimam8203]

Ok

[@GRAY111-e7w]

没有买卖就没有伤害😐。

[@handoyohandoyo6183]

Dari pada ribut dan bingung untuk membela hewan2 yg diburu dan dibunuh toh pada akhirnya tetap menemui jalan buntu, kenakan saja pajak untuk produk2 dari hasil binatang baik gading gajah, singa laut , cula badak sirip hiu dll suatu kenyataan manusia tdk bisa menahannya biarlah pajak2 yg dihasilkan dari produk patung cula dsb nya digunakan utk membentuk pasukan penjaga gajah badak dsbnya

[@BadGuitarist1]

All about money again. I cant beleve the price on those things

[@souravdas2245]

How to sale a ivory

[@rahul87a]

Are there elephants in china?

[@lastoutlaw3882]

Yes. India se bht kam hain but hain South mein.

[@mahsiseua]

so more tusks make me wonder how many elephants were killed? :(

[@ThaoNguyen-jv4up]

I have ivory but it’s from a narwhal ( it’s like 300 years old )

[@iampunitan]

lot of good comments on this, someone here said something like- just because some poachers are poor and oppressed that doesn't give them a valid excuse for killing these creatures,i wholeheartedly agree , i love and respect all human life but apart from my friends and family i would rather a person died than an endangered animal , i know that makes me sound like a cunt and i'm slightly ashamed of it but it's my honest heart and soul gut feeling..when i hear about people using powdered rhino horn or whatever to get a hard on- it makes me think that there is not much hope for us anymore, one day we are going to wipe out the wrong species and find out too late that they were essential to our survival, and when one day in the future we all wake up infertile- i don't think we will feel too despondent ,we may even have a slight sense of relief , we know that what we have done to this world and its innocent life is unforgivable but we ( myself especially ) are too lazy to put it right..there is lots of goodness and beauty in mankind but we have lost the will to be selfless and kind..so i think we're fucked.

[@liebeistfuralleda7652]

i read up to the "I'd rather a person die than an animal" and stopped.. I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE and i'm glad to know i'm not the only person who feels that way... 7 billion vs couple hundred thousand of them.. let's do the math.. just sayn

[@aliciaarden2019]

Audrey Ethal I'm sure her mother will willingly sacrifice her life to save an animal, any animal, even a rhino, as you so neglectfully suggested! That's what will make her more superior than you or your entire slant eyed species can ever be....

[@AndroidGZS]

you have no idea.

[@afshan7649]

The best Ivory Market is in Zimbabwe

[@paolaa9340]

This is disgusting, human greed is causing the suffering of another sentient intelligent creature like the elephant. This is what evil is. Killing innocent creatures for a construct of society. No amount of money will absolve you of your crimes and lack of empathy. The people who deal in the ivory trade might not have personally gone out there and killed those elephants but they are contributing to the evil and are accomplices of the crimes.

[@8wealthyone8]

just dont buy ivory and things will be fine. Blesses Arek

[@Ronnicus]

for all of you blaming the chinese for this- realize that ivory is an important mainstake in their culture and NO ONE is forcing Africans to kill their own elephants for profit: just because there is demand doesn't mean there has to be supply- the price can just go up on existing pieces. That's like saying because people like cheap shoes, its not the factories fault that they dump all their waste into the rivers

[@curious5887]

I'm not sure, but your argument feel like you want to keep elephant poaching alive, even though it's not, so, i respect your argument i guess

[@cancerofsoul]

Why did CITES auction the ivory...they should have destroyed the confiscated ivory in the first place...intentional or plain stupid!

[@smokethepancakes]

Mankind is so wrong we lost our way long ago

[@luisgrod0]

It’s time to write the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF ANIMAL RIGHTS.

[@osfordphilogene8026]

Why not simply remove the ivory from the elephants and replace it with a false tooth So the elephants are saved as it false tooth they are carrying!!

[@elmervladimir]

Damn AMY Is Beautiful :)

[@myself3209]

This strangely makes me want ivory xD

[@SuperMarbelle]

These merchants, even the men/women who represent them will be and are cursed. Ivory that has been harvested before death has and will be cursed. I cannot breathe around these items .What good is inmature ivory? Maturity comes with the knowledge and age of that animal. The death of that animal ( in old age ) is the ultimate. I can tell you that if I cannot breathe around the item, I will not buy it. I only have one piece of ivory ( very small ) and I share it with no one. It is pure and one for me only. Forever.

[@zhishanbaby]

Please in the animal rights movement, there is no place for discrimination.

[@trizahmwangi5020]

It's sad that elephants are going extint coz their tusks are made into small stupid carvings that humans don't need honestly. I wish it was for something profound like medicine or something like that.

[@curious5887]

Elephant Tusk and Rhino horn have no medical value at all

[@trizahmwangi5020]

@@curious5887 I know. Read my comment again.

[@curious5887]

@@trizahmwangi5020 why i need to read your comment, don’t provoke me into a toxic fight here, because Tusk of Elephant, and Rhino Horn medicinal value at all

[@trizahmwangi5020]

@@curious5887 Not engaging you in a fight. You clearly don't understand what I've written. I don't blame you, probably English is not your first language.

[@infernofox294]

Why dont we breed elefants like cows?

[@yusuf18754]

Bann ivory selling

[@soccerguyhammers]

Frankly, this just makes me sad.

[@bengoku1978]

Everytime u finish a doc u should do some research before getting piss off LOL

[@AndroidGZS]

it depends how you define "the chinese people". they could be the elite rich, mobs, cartels who demand such traditional craftwork. but a few dont represent the many. the majority of chinese people dont support these illegal activities. the increasing in demand was also caused by an increase of poaching. poor economic opportunites in africa has forced many african job-seekers to poach. besides it isnt just the poachers in china who are killing elephants for their tusks. they are all over asia.

[@Pandodora]

if there is demand, there is supply, so fk human being

[@ys1281]

😔😔😔🐘🙏❤️

[@capucchan8]

the yuppies are responsible

[@F0RTHEWlN123]

Elephants are walking gold.

[@lastoutlaw3882]

And I m to protect that gold from getting robbed from mother jungle

[@fhahajszbb2156]

💕

[@No1More1Mr1Nice1Guy1]

do the right thing as a consumer? dont buy it! disgusting pieces that have blood on them. id rather see an elephant than possess such frivolities

[@clinton9938]

Thai eat dogs too, the Koreans eat dogs too... did you mention them ? Most Thai eat bugs too...poor bugs~ :p

[@lastoutlaw3882]

That's also a matter of concern

[@payalsonu8122]

who here after death of pregnant elephant in kerala

[@VishalKumar-rb6mw]

Payal madam

[@payalsonu8122]

Who

[@VishalKumar-rb6mw]

@@payalsonu8122 Raj

[@AndroidGZS]

You want to blame capitalism?

[@AndroidGZS]

why do you have to bring race into this?

[@AndroidGZS]

agreed. poachers are criminals. but so are racists lolz.

[@lastoutlaw3882]

Really i agree

[@lifes40123]

blame capitalism and blame the rich people who buys it from the poachers

[@edelyncarreonhernandez5839]

they killed precious animals for money their life is precious than yours! animals are innocent and humans are not! those chi😡

[@lifes40123]

blame money not the poachers

[@riekotz]

you cannot blame an inorganic material non livings are just a tool, blaming them is nonsense and childish.

[@lastoutlaw3882]

Poachers and the ppl who buy from them should be blamed