Africa loses 30 000 elephants annually: Africa Wildlife Foundation

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Channel: SABC News · 2016 · News & Politics

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To trade or not? Possibly the biggest decision that three and a half thousand delegates from 182 countries will deliberate during the 17th Conference of Parties of The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Johannesburg, on Saturday. The conference has on its agenda 62 proposals to either completely ban, allow conditional trade, or seek cooperation from member states in sustainable trade of species. The most divisive proposal will be whether to allow a permanent ban on trade in elephant ivory and rhino horns or to allow commercial exports to a select Southern African countries. Sarah Kimani compiled this reports.

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