article_snippet: Price on the bird head:
article_snippet: The illegal trade is being fuelled by the desires of China wealthy middle classes for carved ivory items.
article_snippet: This now sells for as much as £4,000 a kilo –
article_snippet: three times the price of elephant ivory.
article_snippet: The illegal trade in ivory from the birds is being fuelled by the desires of China’s wealthy middle classes for carved ivory items .
article_snippet: Chinese visitors look at souvenirs made from ivory at a market in Angola.
article_snippet: The ivory, which comes from helmeted hornbills, is three times the price of that of an elephant .
article_snippet: the birds are then sold for up to £300 each to middle men or direct to smugglers exporting to Hong Kong and China.
article_snippet: EIA campaigner Debbie Banks said: ‘What is sickening is The illegal trade in ivory from the birds has nothing to do with tradition or medicine
article_snippet: it’s purely about demand for luxury vanity products.
highlights_snippet: its ivory in China is now worth three times more than that of elephants .
  