Elephant-range Nations Meet In Gaborone

They were regrouping to adopt a common position - as a counter-strategy to that of Kenya and Mali - ahead of the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITIES) in June. 
  Elephant populations in the six southern African neighbours are a threat to the environment and, occasionally, to human life.
A particularly strong delegation from Zimbabwe's  Ministry of the Environment and Tourism attended the Gaborone meeting.
Zimbabwe, with an elephant population of about 110 000 elephants, feels very strongly about the elephant issue.
According to a count conducted in 2006 by World-Wide Fund, there are around 90 000 elephants in Zimbabwe. A further 20 000 are in the Gonarezhou National Park, but these were not covered during the survey.
At 120 000, Botswana has one of the largest herds of the six.