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Elephants at the Manyara National Park. Tanzania wants its population downlisted to Cites Appendix II. Picture: Leonard Magomba

Elephants at the Manyara National Park. Tanzania wants its population downlisted to Cites Appendix II. Picture: Leonard Magomba 

By ABDUEL ELINAZA  (email the author)
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Posted  Sunday, January 31  2010 at  12:48

The first was in 1997 while the second took place in 2008 when Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa were allowed to have one-off ivory sales after Cites was convinced that their elephant herds had increased due to their strict conservation measures.

Now Tanzania and Zambia also want their elephant population to be downlisted from Cites Appendix I, which prohibits all trade in animal and plant species, to Appendix II, which allows trade if it is monitored.

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