亚洲象牙

在亚洲象牙和犀牛角被卖到非常高的价格。

Ivory and rhino horns sell for very high prices in Asia .

当亚洲对于象牙和犀牛角需求增加时非洲偷猎势头也呈上升趋势。

Poaching is on the rise across Africa as demand grows in Asia for ivory and rhino horns .

周一发布的研究称，大陆地区大象死亡率的激增，是由于亚洲国家对象牙需求的增多。

The study released Monday says the huge spike in the continent 's elephant death rate is due to an increased demand for ivory in Asian nations .

一些亚洲国家对象牙的需求急剧增加，这就使得偷猎死灰复燃，重新达到了20世纪80年代象牙交易被禁之前的水平。

A soaring demand for ivory in a number of Asian nations has seen poaching hit levels that were last reached in the 1980s before the ivory trade was banned .

谁都无法承受更多的离别和死亡。全球，尤其是亚洲地区对于象牙有很大的需求。贪婪的偷猎者垂涎于象牙贸易背后的丰厚利润，每15分钟就会屠杀一头大象。

The demand for ivory , especially in Asia , and the greed of those who profit from this gruesome trade means that poachers kill one elephant every 15 minutes .

不法分子在亚洲非法猎取的象牙一年至少可以赚取1.65亿美元，然而我们的近亲黑猩猩、大猩猩和红毛猩猩等在野外被诱拐然后被卖给私人收藏家。

Poached ivory fetches at least 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives - great apes like chimpanzees , gorillas and orangutans - are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors .