Since the prices of ivory escalated in China, the nation have killed 100,000 African elephants in just the past three years. Over the past 10 years, China's industry for legal ivory has quadrupled and is providing a mask for illegal trade. Because of this, Prince William denounced the Chinese nation for its mindless addiction for alleged cures and trinkets that heightened the slaughter and poaching of elephants.

On Monday, Prince William spoke at the World Bank International Corruption Alliance Conference in Washington. The Independent UK reported the Duke of Cambridge spoke about the illegal wildlife industry as one of the most treacherous forms of corruption and criminality globally. And with China's slaughter of 100,000 elephants, the prince will potentially risk a diplomatic spat with Beijing as he fought to end the ivory trade.

In 25 years, China's wholesale ivory price has increased from about £3.20 per kilogram to about £1,350 per kilogram. And these has led the Chinese nation to increase its unsustainable killing of African elephants. According to NBC, "Save the Elephants" founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton said China has already slaughtered 100,000 elephants in the past 3 years.

"African elephants could disappear from the wild within a generation," Douglas-Hamilton said.

As the world's biggest ivory consumer, China has developed a lucrative taste for exotic goods. Since 2010, the wholesale price of raw tusks has tripled in just four years while retail prices for finished ivory have exponentially increased, which led to the nation's slaughtering of 100,000 elephants. CNN reported the regulating laws in China's ivory sales have not been adequately enforced.

"The system is presently out of control," a Tuesday report from "Save the Elephants" and The Aspinall Foundation said.

Meanwhile, Prince William has spoken about China's 100,000 elephants slaughter during his 3-day NYC visit. The Duke of Cambridge, who is due to go to China early next year, emphasized the increase in elephant and other wildlife poaching.

"Some endangered species are now literally worth more than their weight in gold," Prince William said. "Traffickers are taking advantage of globalization, hiding within the huge flows of goods across borders and exploiting technology - from helicopters and precision weapons to the borderless market of the Internet."

Researchers have warned that ivory poachers were killing elephants faster than they are being born. A Colorado State University academics research suggested up to 100,000 elephants were killed between 2010 and 2012, particularly in China. Each year, experts discovered that Africa lost an average of 7 percent of its entire elephant population while births added just 5 percent per year.

"Together they loot our planet, to feed mankind's ignorant craving for pets, trinkets, cures and ornaments derived from the world's vanishing and irreplaceable species," Prince William added.

Because of the mindless killing of 100,000 elephants in China, conservationists warned that elephants could be extinct within two decades.