Thursday 10 July 2014

Global effort needed to stem elephant slaughter: CITES

FLORA AND FAUNA
Global effort needed to stem elephant slaughter: CITES
Geneva (AFP) July 09, 2014 - Elephants will be wiped out in some parts of Africa unless more countries get involved in efforts to prevent poaching and ivory smuggling, according to wildlife regulator CITES. "We need to widen the net," John Scanlon, the chief of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), told AFP on the sidelines of a meeting in Geneva this week focused o ... more


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