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Government Aggriveed By Decisions Made At The CITES Convention.

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The government has said that it is aggrieved by the decisions made at the 19th Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora held in Panama,last month .
The remarks comes after the country’s request to resume the international commercial trade in ivory of government-owned stockpiles to fund elephant conservation, was rejected by most member states.
Speaking in the capital,the Minister of Environment, Mangaliso Ndlovu, said that Zimbabwe was disappointed by the decisions made in Panama where the convention restricted the trade of live elephants and imposed a blanket ban on the trading of ivory.

‘’Largely CITES was a disappointment for us as Zimbabwe and for the SADC region.A disappointment in that CITES is a convention established to regulate trade endangered species but increasingly it is regulating trade even for species far from being endangered especially from a SADC perspective.

We had a proposal to say we see in company setups,that you have shareholders who vote on the basis of their shareholding, we cant be a sadc region with 855 elephant population and have the 15% deciding what goes and what doesn’t.,’’he said
Zimbabwe had proposed an amendment to the voting procedure to assign several votes per representative proportionate to the population size of the species under discussion or whose status is subject to voting. As well as the country proposal to remove the requirement that Zimbabwe’s elephants listed on Appendix II can only be traded to “acceptable” destinations.
However all of its key proposals at the 19th CITES Conference held in Panama City last month.
Zimbabwe currently has 236 metric tonnes of ivory and rhino horns with an estimated value of US$600million and country is not able to sell them as it is bound by the CITES regulations.
The country is currently struggling to contain the growing elephant population which has now exceeded carrying capacity leading to the growing cases in human wildlife conflicts.

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