Lucy Skrine, 11, was walking through the bustling streets of Hong Kong a few months ago with fellow animal activists, holding signs in Chinese and English that read: "Say No to Ivory."
"There was one mainland Chinese that came around, and she said, 'Why can't we buy ivory?'" the sixth-grader recalled. Lucy explained that poachers had to kill the elephant to extract the tusks.
"When she learned this, she was like, 'What?