In this file photo taken Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, an elephant walks through the bush at the Southern African Wildlife College on the edge of Kruger National Park in South Africa. The Chinese government said in a statement released on Friday Dec. 30, 2016, it will shut down its official ivory trade at the end of 2017 in a move designed to curb the mass slaughter of African elephants.(Denis Farrell/AP)
VickiCroke (@TheWildLifeWBUR), host of WBUR's The Wild Life blog, joins Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd to discuss the significance of China’s announcement on Friday that it will shut down its ivory market — the world’s largest — by the end of this year.
