{"id":4984,"date":"2019-08-30T09:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"eritrea-joins-coalition-to-protect-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/30\/eritrea-joins-coalition-to-protect-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Eritrea &#8216;Joins Coalition to Protect Elephants&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>By<\/b><strong> BBC Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eritrea has joined the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), the conservation coalition that wants to end the trade in ivory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The announcement was made in Geneva where a meeting of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cites.org\/\">Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species<\/a>\u00a0(Cites) was just ended.  <br>According to the EPI, Eritrea becomes the 20th country to join the organisation that was formed in 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting in Geneva&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-49481716\">a near-total ban on taking baby African elephants from the wild and selling them to zoos was approved<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe and Botswana, which have healthier elephant populations than other African nations, were permitted to export elephants to &#8220;appropriate and acceptable&#8221; destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some African nations had pushed for a re-opening of the ivory trade during the convention, arguing that existing stocks &#8211; confiscated from poachers or left over from already-dead animals &#8211; were worth vast sums of money that could be used for conservation&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world\/africa\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Africa Eritrea has joined the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), the conservation coalition that wants to end the trade in ivory. The announcement was made in Geneva where a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4984","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\/4984","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=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}