Duke of Cambridge uses speech hours before Chinese president Xi Jinping’s UK state visit to campaign against trade in illegal wildlife products Prince William has told Chinese citizens to quit buying illegally traded wildlife products such as ivory and horn to save Africa’s rhino and elephants,hours before a state visit to the UK by China’s president.
He said: “We bear to accept the truth: that consumers are driving the demand for animal body parts, for art, or for trinkets,or for medicine. Only we as consumers can build the wildlife traffickers out of business.” Related: David Attenborough calls on Chinese president to end ivory trade Related: David Cameron dismisses risk of rift with US over China Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com