{"id":4967,"date":"2019-08-29T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"how-kenya-rallied-countries-to-thwart-sale-of-ivory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/29\/how-kenya-rallied-countries-to-thwart-sale-of-ivory\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kenya Rallied Countries To Thwart Sale Of Ivory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By The Star<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya has thwarted plans by four African\ncountries&nbsp;to allow the sale of ivory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, Kenya rallied the rest of Africa\nto&nbsp;vote against allowing countries with stocks of ivory to sell them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa wanted to be\nallowed to sell their ivory stockpiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At&nbsp;least 20,000 elephants are killed annually in\nAfrica for their ivory.&nbsp;This translates into 55 elephants killed daily\nor&nbsp;one elephant killed every 26 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a population of 35,000 elephants, the Kenyan\ndelegation at the ongoing Convention on International Trade in Endangered\nSpecies of Wild Fauna and Flora in Geneva could not sit pretty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nairobi was acting on behalf of the 32-member state of\nthe African Elephant Coalition.&nbsp;Kenya ensured that the request by the four\nAfrican countries never saw the light of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe had argued the local communities were suffering\nas&nbsp;they no longer earned a living from elephants. The request was thrown\nout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Botswana&#8217;s appeal to be given the go-ahead to sell its\nivory stockpiles was also&nbsp;rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The African Elephant Coalition is a consortium of 32\ncountries interested in ensuring that there is a healthy and viable elephant\npopulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members include&nbsp;Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi,\nCameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, the&nbsp;Comoros,&nbsp;Equatorial\nGuinea, Eritrea and Ethiopia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/2019-08-27-how-kenya-rallied-countries-to-thwart-sale-of-ivory\/\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Star Kenya has thwarted plans by four African countries&nbsp;to allow the sale of ivory. On Thursday, Kenya rallied the rest of Africa to&nbsp;vote against allowing countries with stocks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4968,"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-4967","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\/4967","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=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}