The number of African elephants—an endangered species—could suffer from a less restrictive ban on trading ivory
species of animals and about 30,000 species of plants are listed in the various appendices of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to protect them against over-exploitation. But asconvenes its three-yearly decision-making conference in Geneva this month, one animal, as so often in the past, will attract much of the attention: the African elephant.’s mascot.
To understand why these reasonable-sounding proposals should be rejected, consider what has happened to elephant numbers sincemost recently authorised some legal trade, when Botswana, Namibia and South Africa were allowed in 2007 to sell a fixed amount of ivory to Japan, as a one-off. Elephant numbers started falling again.
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