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China Gets to Buy Elephant Ivory

Critter News

I don't know how to call this one.will it help or hurt the elephant population in the long run? 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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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

10,000 Birds

Take an example, Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa. And culls of Nyala have been proposed. This was one of the first, most shocking and most important lessons I learnt in my conservation masters – conservation requires active management. We can’t afford just to let nature be nature any more.

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