By JOHN KOMBEGOVERNMENT through the Ministry of Tourism is still in the process of engaging parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to allow Zambia to sell its 70 tons of Ivory stock pile.Ministry of Tourism spokesperson, Sakabilo Kalembwe, disclosed that the ministry would engage the parties through the presentation of a proposal to down-list the elephant population in Zambia from Appendix I to Appendix II at the next Conference of Parties which will be held next year in Panama.Mr Kalembwe, however stated that the government is yet to establish the value of the 70 tonnes of ivory stockpile held in the ministry’s strong rooms.He said that the value has not been established due to the absence of international legal trade under CITES.He said that the government failed to get the support from parties during the last conference of parties held in Geneva in 2019 when it made an effort to […]
Government yearning to offload 70 tonnes of Ivory stockpile
