Online auction giant eBay is set to ban ivory trade from its websites, as pressure mounts to eradicate illegal traffic in endangered species from the Internet, participants at the world forum regulating wildlife commerce said Tuesday.

“eBay has informed us that they intend to announce, probably later today, that they will stop the international trade of ivory,” said one participant at the 171-nation Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), meeting in
The Hague.