Botswana to sell ivory

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Botswana's 20-ton elephant ivory is heading for China, after the latter won the right at a UN wildlife meeting on Tuesday to import elephant ivory from Africa under strict conditions, a UN spokesman said.

Four countries, namely Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, are permitted under a deal reached at The Hague last year to make one-off sales of registered ivory stocks.

"China was accepted as a trading partner to import ivory from the four authorised countries in southern Africa," said Juan Carlos Vasquez of CITES, or the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

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Botswana to sell ivory

Botswana's 20-ton elephant ivory is heading for China, after the latter won the right at a UN wildlife meeting on Tuesday to import elephant ivory from Africa under strict conditions, a UN spokesman said.