Report: Africa ivory smuggled on China state visit

Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 05:30 in Biology & Nature

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese officials and businesspeople used a state trip by President Xi Jinping and other high-level visits to smuggle ivory out of Tanzania, an environmental watchdog said in a report Thursday that cast doubt over Beijing's efforts to stamp out the illegal trade that has led to rampant elephant poaching throughout Africa....

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