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| KENYA WINS KEY BACKING FOR THE BAN ON TRADE IN IVORY |
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Kenya has secured the support of 16 African governments in its battle with neighbouring Tanzania over a proposal to allow for controlled trade in ivory. At least two thirds of the 23 member African Elephants Coalition are backing Kenya’s proposal to replace the nine-year moratorium on ivory trade, which ends in 2019 with a 20-year moratorium. If adopted, the proposal will bind all parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to outlaw trade in ivory a move that Tanzania and Zambia have opposed. Reports from the six-days of meeting of AEC in Brussels indicate that Mali, Benin, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Republic of Congo and Government of Southern Sudan backed Kenya’s proposal to maintain the strongest possible international moratorium on trade in ivory. “No proposals for trade in ivory should be considered until COP18 in 2019. Proposals from Tanzania and Zambia should therefore be withdrawn,” a statement issued after the meeting chaired by Mali and Kenya said.
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