{"id":4889,"date":"2019-08-27T10:03:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T07:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"zimbabwe-mulls-pulling-out-of-cites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/27\/zimbabwe-mulls-pulling-out-of-cites\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe &#8216;Mulls Pulling Out Of Cites&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the country is\nconsidering pulling out of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cites.org\/\">Convention\non International Trade in Endangered Species<\/a>(Cites) to better guard\nits wildlife,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.herald.co.zw\/cites-zim-considers-pull-out\/\">the\nstate-run Herald newspaper reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Cites conference, bringing together delegates from more\nthan 180 countries, will finish in the Swiss city of Geneva on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, which began on 17 August, it has been\ndecided to maintain a ban on international trade in elephant ivory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-49372409\">had\nproposed that ivory from elephants in their region be traded<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are sitting on ivory stockpiles worth $600m [\u00a3491m].\nIt\u2019s a lot of money we can use for big projects,\u201d the Herald quotes Mr\nMnangagwa as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such projects included training rangers and to erect buffer\nzones for wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur wild animals are being discussed in Geneva, an\nirrelevant place to the animals. We now know what to do about the issue,&#8221;\nMr Mnangagwa is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zimbabwean leader questioned the motives of those\nmaking the decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCites is made up of people who have exhausted their\nwildlife resources and those who have managed to conserve them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEuropeans have consumed all their animals, but they want\nto set rules for us who have managed to conserve theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey bar us from killing our animals for selling ivory,\nbut they want us to protect them from being poached.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Mnangagwa was quoted as saying that Zimbabwe had\ntoo many elephants \u2013 more than 84,000 \u2013 with the capacity to cope with around\n56,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have our friends like Japan and China whom we can\nnegotiate with to buy our ivory after we express our reservations with\nCites,&#8221; the president said. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-africa-47639452?ns_mchannel=social&amp;ns_source=twitter&amp;ns_campaign=bbc_live&amp;ns_linkname=5d64c2625dff7f065f827d73%26Zimbabwe%20%27mulls%20pulling%20out%20of%20Cites%27%262019-08-27T05%3A44%3A06.093Z&amp;ns_fee=0&amp;pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:421fa1e0-8b17-42b1-bf05-b09d4400edca&amp;pinned_post_asset_id=5d64c2625dff7f065f827d73&amp;pinned_post_type=share\">original\narticle<\/a> on BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the country is considering pulling out of the&nbsp;Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species(Cites) to better guard its wildlife,&nbsp;the state-run Herald newspaper reports.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4890,"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-4889","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\/4889","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=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}