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<p>The UK has played a leading role in galvanising international action to combat
the illegal wildlife trade, and in pressing for a total ban on ivory sales we will
work with our international partners and interested parties at home to seek their
views about how we best achieve this and over what timeframe.</p><p>The Government
is committed to maintaining the current global ban on any new international trade
in raw ivory. In addition, the UK does not permit trade in raw ivory tusks of any
age and we are pressing for this approach to be taken across the whole of the European
Union.</p><p>We also warmly welcome the recent indications from the Government of
China that it intends in due course to close its legal domestic market for ivory.
This will remove a key driver of the demand which in turn fuels the continued poaching
that is currently resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of elephants every
year.</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p>
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