Many shops in China were ordered to shut down as a new law against ivory trade came into effect on January 1st, 2018.

Chopsticks, which are roughly uniform in size throughout China, can be made of a variety of materials, including bamboo, wood, lacquer, jade, ivory, plastic, aluminum, silver and gold.

Elephants would definitely be excluded; poaching of them has begun to increase again, especially as China, which loves ivory, gets richer.