Prince William urges Chinese to stop buying ivory and rhino horn

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 stop 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 have to accept the truth: that consumers are driving the demand for animal body parts, for art, for trinkets, or for medicine. Only we as consumers can put the wildlife traffickers out of business."