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World Service,3 mins

China's donkey skin craving

Focus on Africa

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Burkina Faso bans exports of donkey skins after booming demand makes the animals worth more dead than alive. Cook and writer on China Fuchsia Dunlop explains how prosperity and pollution are fuelling a global trade. Picture shows donkeys in Burkina Faso. (Credit: Pascal Guyot/Getty Images)

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