{"id":4958,"date":"2019-08-29T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"key-forum-fails-to-shield-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/29\/key-forum-fails-to-shield-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Forum Fails To Shield Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By the standard Digital<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>African countries have regretted that\nparticipants at a global forum did not extend full protection for the\ncontinent\u2019s elephants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Convention on International Trade in\nEndangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ends on Wednesday in Geneva,\nSwitzerland, but African representatives said the decision on the future of\nelephants was an anticlimax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya\u2019s Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako\nTobiko said while the proposals calling for the reopening of the international\nivory trade were overwhelmingly rejected, the parties of the CITES did not take\nthe necessary steps to provide the full protection to African elephants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis\nwent contrary to the view of the majority of African countries in which the\nspecies lives,\u201d Tobiko said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The African representatives said the EU, which\nis made up of a 28-country bloc vote, ultimately determined the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe EU claimed that the range countries of the\nspecies were against stronger protection. This is a misrepresentation of facts\nsince the proposal in question was submitted on behalf of countries\nrepresenting 70 per cent of the African elephant range,\u201d the representatives\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, the chairman of the committee in\nwhich the debate raged failed to demonstrate the impartiality expected of him\nby often giving the floor to the countries of southern Africa, all who favor\nreopening the trade in ivory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, the proposal to ban trade, which\nwas submitted by the other African Range States under the banner of the African\nElephant Coalition (AEC), was dealt with in just 20 minutes. It is appalling\nthat CITES member States did not give the issue of the African elephant\u2019s\nsurvival the importance it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vera\nWeber, president of Foundation Franz Weber (FFW), said her organization will\ncontinue to monitor the final days of the Conference of the Parties (CoP18),\ncomplete with its twists and turns. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001339489\/key-forum-fails-to-shield-elephants\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the standard Digital African countries have regretted that participants at a global forum did not extend full protection for the continent\u2019s elephants. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4959,"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-4958","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\/4958","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=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}