Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:36:07 +0000 By AARON CHIYANZO ZAMBIA is stuck with over 52 tonnes of both legal and illegal ivory worth over US$ 100 million because of the worldwide trade ban of the commodity, says Minister of Tourism and Arts Charles Banda. Mr Banda said that Zambia had plenty of ivory in stock which government was still deciding on how to dispose it off. He said that some of it was confiscated from poachers by the authorities but that some was collected from elephants that died on their own. The minister explained that Zambia was sitting on over 53.2 tonnes of ivory which it could not sell off because of the worldwide trade ban of the commodity. He pointed out that 27.2 tonnes of the total 53.2 tonnes was legally collected while 26 tonnes was confiscated from poachers. “We have plenty of it at our warehouses, some of it legal and others […]
