{"id":4935,"date":"2019-08-28T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T07:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"zoo-trade-in-baby-elephants-banned-internationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/28\/zoo-trade-in-baby-elephants-banned-internationally\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoo Trade In Baby Elephants Banned Internationally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BBC News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A near-total ban on taking baby African elephants from\nthe wild and selling them to zoos has been approved at a meeting in Geneva.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parties to the Convention\non International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) decided to tighten the\nrules after days of debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Union decided\nto back the ban late in the day, despite concerns, and the move passed by 87\nvotes to 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Zimbabwe, the main\nexporter, voted against, as did the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe and Botswana,\nwhich have healthier elephant populations than other African nations, have been\npermitted to export elephants to &#8220;appropriate and acceptable&#8221;\ndestinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under that rule, the\ncountry has captured and exported more than 100 baby elephants to Chinese zoos\nsince 2012, Humane Society International says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s decision\nsignificantly strengthens the restrictions on the elephant trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now elephants can only be\ntaken from the wild and placed in &#8220;captive facilities&#8221; elsewhere in\nthe world under exceptional circumstances &#8211; and subject to approval by a\ncommittee of Cites members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ban was approved by\ncommittee last week, but it was far from certain to pass a new vote at the end\nof the two-week conference. Zimbabwe had campaigned fiercely against the move,\nand the EU had initially opposed it because of concerns over genetic variation\nin zoos around the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-49481716\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC News A near-total ban on taking baby African elephants from the wild and selling them to zoos has been approved at a meeting in Geneva. Parties to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4936,"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-4935","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\/4935","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=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}