Zambia will fight for CITES exemption - Namugala

Friday, April 09, 2010

LUSAKA - "We are down, but not out. So we shall continue fighting until we succeed. We'll make a fresh bid in 2013," wildlife and tourism minister, Catherine Namugala, said after CITES rejected Zambia's bid to sell her ivory.

Zambia says it has lost about US$20 million in revenue from ivory sales after the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) member states rejected her bid to sell part of the country's ivory stockpile.

Speaking on her return from the just ended CITES meeting in Doha, Qatar, where the proposal by Zambia and Tanzania to sell their ivory was thrown out, Namugala regretted the move, but indicated that Lusaka would continue fighting.

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Zambia will fight for CITES exemption - Namugala

LUSAKA - "We are down, but not out. So we shall continue fighting until we succeed. We'll make a fresh bid in 2013," wildlife and tourism minister, Catherine Namugala, said after CITES rejected Zambia's bid to sell her ivory.

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Selefu

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