{"id":3068,"date":"2019-06-14T06:53:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T06:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","slug":"zimbabwe-demands-right-to-sell-300m-of-ivory-to-fund-game-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/14\/zimbabwe-demands-right-to-sell-300m-of-ivory-to-fund-game-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Demands Right to Sell $300m Of Ivory To Fund Game Reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BY AFP <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe has demanded the right to sell its stockpile of ivory to raise money for conservation, wildlife authorities said Tuesday, joining other southern African nations in calling for the global ban on the trade in tusks to be relaxed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wildlife\nauthorities in the cash-strapped nation estimate the country&#8217;s decades-old\nhoard of ivory is worth around $300 million, which they say would help plug funding\ngaps for game reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposal\nhas put it on a collision course with the Convention on International Trade in\nEndangered Species (CITES), which prohibits the sale of ivory to curb poaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe,\nBotswana, Namibia, Zambia have cited the growing number of elephants in some\nregions in their bid to have the restrictions relaxed\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Zimbabwe-ivory\/4552902-5154284-2rd7wg\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY AFP Zimbabwe has demanded the right to sell its stockpile of ivory to raise money for conservation, wildlife authorities said Tuesday, joining other southern African nations in calling for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3069,"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-3068","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\/3068","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=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}