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Elephants are in crisis. Every year, approximately 35,000 are killed, largely to supply the illegal international trade in ivory and meet demand in Asia – primarily China. Reducing demand for ivory is seen as a vital step towards eliminating the illegal killing of elephants. How to do so is the subject of much disagreement because people do not know enough about the economic drivers and impacts of the legal and illegal ivory trades in China to make informed decisions.