CITES to impose near-total ban on sending wild elephants to zoos
Elephants in western, central and eastern Africa have long been listed among the species in need of most protection under CITES. – EPA pic, August 28, 2019.
THE regulator of global wildlife trade will impose a near-total ban on sending African elephants captured from the wild to zoos after a final vote on the issue yesterday. Following a heated debate at a meeting of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Geneva, countries approved a proposed text after a revision by the European Union watered down the ban slightly.
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