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Sun Mar 3, 2013, 09:35 AM Mar 2013

Thailand's promise to end ivory trade cautiously welcomed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21646863


An elephant performs for tourists in Thailand where a legal trade in ivory is said to boost poaching in Africa

Thailand's prime minister says she will amend her country's laws to ban the legal trade in ivory.

Yingluck Shinawatra was speaking at the opening of the Cites conservation meeting taking place in Bangkok,

The legal market in Thailand is said to be fuelling high levels of poaching across Africa.

Critics say that there is a lack of clarity and detail regarding the proposed changes to the law.
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