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China Gets to Buy Elephant Ivory

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It will allow China to bid for more than 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiled in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe through culling and natural deaths. Tags: ivory africa CITES poaching china elephants.

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Where America dreams of/goes birding?

10,000 Birds

Ecuador or Botswana, respectively). 4%: Mexico, West Papua (Indonesia), New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya. Not surprisingly, ten of these 19 countries are in the Americas, but what does surprise me, there are just 4 in Africa and just 1 in Asia (2 if you count Indonesia). Galapagos or the Okavango Delta). 21%: Costa Rica.