{"id":2928,"date":"2019-06-06T07:50:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T07:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"trophy-hunting-botswanas-choice-but-not-as-good-for-neighbours-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/06\/trophy-hunting-botswanas-choice-but-not-as-good-for-neighbours-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Trophy Hunting: Botswana\u2019s Choice But Not As Good For Neighbours\u2019 Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BY KENNEDY SENELWA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zimbabwe,\nBotswana, Namibia and South Africa want the restrictions imposed by Convention\non International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites)\neased to enable them to sell off stockpiles of raw ivory. What informs this and\ncan the appeal be accommodated?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four countries, which have\ncombined range land of approximately 500,000 square kilometers, host over\n260,000 elephants \u2014 the highest numbers in all of Africa. These countries have\na right to petition Cites to allow them to sell their ivory stockpiles, because\nthat is what the system is for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AWF would not like to see ivory\nsold because of past experience. When Cites in 1980s allowed Zimbabwe to sell\nthe stockpiles to Japan, poachers took advantage to kill elephants in other\ncountries and Tanzania lost about half of its herd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is there to stop poachers\nfrom doing the same again? As it is, buyers do not have biometrics to check\ntusks are from which country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poachers kill about 20,000\nelephants in Africa annually. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/ea\/Botswana-choice-but-not-as-good-for-neighbours-elephants\/4552908-5145496-ra70liz\/index.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KENNEDY SENELWA Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa want the restrictions imposed by Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) eased to enable&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}