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Input: View Images A shipment of more than 700 ivory tusks worth over $1 million was seized by customs officials in Hong Kong in early January 2013. 
  
 Photograph by Bobby Yip, Reuters 
  
 Twenty-eight tons of Hong Kong's elephant ivory will soon go up in flames—the largest stockpile ever burned, the semi-autonomous Chinese region announced Thursday. 
  
 The decision makes Hong Kong the latest government to destroy its ivory, following recent moves by the United States and the Philippines. 
  
 In June 2013, the Philippines crushed five tons of seized ivory, becoming the world's first ivory-consuming nation to destroy its national ivory stock. 
  
 The act comes in the wake of the country's being identified by National Geographic magazine as having a longtime ivory-trafficking problem. 
  
 Hong Kong's ivory will be destroyed over a period of two years, and any ivory confiscated in the future will be regularly disposed of, Hong Kong's Endangered Species Advisory Committee Chairman Paul Shin said in a press conference. 
  
 "The committee strongly calls upon countries all over the world to make [a] concerted effort in combating illegal poaching of elephants and to undertake vigorous measures to protect elephants," Shin said. (Watch a video of Shin's announcement.) 
  
 A 1989 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) treaty banned all trade in elephant ivory, but poaching continues to feed black market sales. 
  
 According to the Wildlife Conservation Society, about 96 elephants a day are killed illegally in Africa, largely because of the demand for their ivory. Much of that ivory ends up in China, where it is carved and sold domestically or abroad. (Read "Ivory Worship" in National Geographic magazine.) 
  
 Due to poaching and other causes, the African elephant population has fallen to an estimated 500,000 elephants, down from as many as three to five million in the 1930s and '40s, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). 
  
 "Extraordinary" Action 
  
 In recent years, several countries have made high-profile statements by burning or crushing ivory. 
  
 In January, the Chinese government pulverized six tons of ivory in Dongguan, and Denver, Colorado, was the site of a highly publicized crush of six tons of confiscated ivory last November. The central African country of Gabon has also set its ivory aflame. (Related: "Massive Pile of Elephant Ivory Burned in Gabon—A First.") 
  
 But Patrick Bergin, head of the nonprofit group African Wildlife Foundation, said Hong Kong's action is "extraordinary" because of the centuries-old culture of ivory worship there. 
  
 Bergin said that Hong Kong's public destruction will discourage ivory collectors from going after more ivory. (See pictures of the "ivory wars" in National Geographic magazine.) 
  
 "Hong Kong, as a major destination and transit hub for trafficked ivory, will soon join that growing list of leaders that are placing a higher value on a living elephant than pieces of a dead one." ||||| Story highlights Hong Kong said it will destroy most of its stockpile of seized ivory 
  
 The ivory had become a "management burden" and "security risk" 
  
 Decision follows similar moves by China and the United States 
  
 Conservationists say move would send strong message to ivory consumers 
  
 Hong Kong says it will destroy most of its huge stockpile of contraband ivory in a move hailed by conservationists as a significant step in combating the illegal trade in elephant tusks. 
  
 Some 28 tons of ivory will be incinerated in the next one to two years, with the first batch slated to be disposed of by the end of June, the city's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said on Thursday. 
  
 The department said the huge stockpile, held in undisclosed locations around the city, had become a "management burden" and a "security risk." 
  
 The city had previously opted not to destroy the stash -- most of which is seized en route to mainland China -- but had come under pressure following similar moves by its neighbor and the United States. 
  
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 Earlier this month, six tons of ivory were crushed in the southern city of Guangzhou, the first time China -- which accounts for 70% of global demand for ivory -- had destroyed any of its confiscated ivory. 
  
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 In November, the U.S. destroyed its entire six-ton pile of ivory "to send a clear message that the United States will not tolerate ivory trafficking and the toll it is taking on elephant populations, particularly in Africa." 
  
 China is the world's largest ivory market accounting for an estimated 70% of global consumption, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare. 
  
 Alex Hofford, program director at the campaign group Hong Kong for Elephants and a consultant for WildAid, said the move would send a strong message that would deter would-be buyers of what is sometimes called "white gold." 
  
 He said that Hong Kong had previously been unwilling to destroy the seized tusks because of concerns it would create air pollution and fears that such a move would be wasteful. 
  
 READ: Hong Kong's ivory stockpile an elephant-sized headache 
  
 A Hong Kong department spokesman said the ivory would be burned in three ton batches and any ivory seized in the future would be disposed of in the same way. 
  
 One ton of confiscated ivory would be retained for education purposes. 
  
 In 2008, a one-time sale of ivory seized in Africa to China was permitted by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) but the decision was subsequently criticized by wildlife protection advocates, who say the deal jump-started the ivory trade in China. 
  
 READ: Will Hong Kong follow China's lead? |||||
Output:
Hong Kong plans to burn the tusks of an estimated 11,000 elephants in the world's biggest burning of an ivory stockpile. The territory's government says the 28-ton stockpile of contraband ivory is a "management burden" and a "security risk," reports CNN. Hong Kong had earlier been unwilling to burn the stockpile, deeming the move wasteful and polluting, but it came under renewed pressure after smaller stockpiles were destroyed in China and the US, where six tons of ivory were destroyed with a rock crusher. One ton of ivory will be kept for educational purposes. Anti-poaching groups say Hong Kong destroying its stockpile will make a huge statement not just because of the quantity, but because of the city's long history in the ivory trade. "Hong Kong, as a major destination and transit hub for trafficked ivory, will soon join that growing list of leaders that are placing a higher value on a living elephant than pieces of a dead one," the chief of the African Wildlife Foundation nonprofit tells National Geographic.