Zimbabwe May Withdraw From Endangered-Species Deal to Sell $300 Million of Ivory
- Frustration is growing over sales ban, wildlife chief says
- Japan has shown interest in buying country’s stockpile
A Zimbabwe National Parks game ranger holds an elephant ivory tusk in the country's ivory vault in Harare, on June 2, 2016.
Photographer: Jekesai Njikizana /AFP via Getty Images
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Zimbabwe may consider withdrawing from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species because the organization won’t allow it to sell its ivory stockpile.
The southern African nation with the world second-largest population of elephants has a stockpile of tusks worth an estimated $300 million and needs the revenue, Fulton Mangwanya, director-general of the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, told lawmakers in the capital, Harare on Monday.