The Duke of Cambridge was unaware that the apparently wild animals had been trained to perform tricks for tourists
Wednesday 04 March 2015
Prince William’s call for an end to animal abuses – including elephant poaching and environmental conservation – during his four-day tour of China received praise from campaigners.
His meeting with President Xi Jinping on Monday to discuss the matter came a week after a historic decision to ban ivory imports to China for a year, in the hope that it would ebb demand for the flow of African tusks coming into the country.
However, there is still no ban on ivory trade within the country, which, according to conservationists, allows the black market to thrive with or without importation, and makes the country one of the main protagonists in trade.
The final stop of the Duke of Cambridge’s trip, therefore, as Patron of the Tusk Trust, was a poignant one. He visited the Xishuangbanna Elephant Sanctuary in Yunnan Province, where 250 animals represent the only “wild” Asian elephants in China.
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