Thu, 08 Dec 2016 11:52:59 +0000 ZAMBIA has come of age by deciding that the thousands of highly valued elephant tusks and rhino horns seized from poachers and international traffickers will in future not be burnt as has been the practice all these years but will be stored for sale in the future. Africa, especially the Eastern and Southern region, has lost a fortune through the destruction of wildlife products confiscated from poachers and illegal dealers in conformity with CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which mandated that such contraband should be publicly set ablaze and burnt to ashes to signify the world’s horror for the trade. This particular requirement by CITES has been a cause of discomfort by many African governments who felt that they were actually burning money that could have helped to fund the local campaigns against poaching and wildlife management in general on […]
