The leaders resolved to 'effectively lobby the international community' to relax the global ban on ivory trade to a strictly-controlled form of trade.
The leaders resolved to ‘effectively lobby the international community’ to relax the global ban on ivory trade to a strictly-controlled form of trade.
“We cannot continue to be spectators while others debate and take decisions about our elephants,” Masisi said in opening remarks in the northern town of Kasane. In 1989 the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species banned international trade in ivory by listing all African elephant populations in its appendix 1.
As the “numbers continue to grow, human-elephant conflict is escalating ….due to competition for limited resources and the effects of climate change,” they said.
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