Where Elephants Roam, Leaders Float Idea of Reviving Ivory Trade
- Ministers consider forming group using Kimberley Process model
- Southern Africa is home to most of world’s African elephants
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Four southern African nations are considering breaking away from the United Nations’ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to set up a parallel organization to allow trade in ivory.
Tourism ministers from Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia and Botswana met on Friday to look at alternate strategies to CITES, Mangaliso Ndlovu, Zimbabwe’s environment and tourism minister, said by phone.