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China turns away from elephant ivory — and toward fossil mammoth ivory from Russia’s Arctic

By Steven Lee Myers, The New York Times August 10, 2017
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NANJING, China — Environmentalists worried about the fate of Africa’s dwindling elephant population cheered when China announced a ban on the sale of commercial ivory last year, but an increasingly popular substitute is raising concerns of its own.

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