African elephant populations denied greater protection at CITES

Share this article ... JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Divisions between African Parties failed elephant populations today, ...

CITES votes against strongest protection for elephants

CITES meeting blocks proposal for a ban on all trade of ivory from four southern African countries with stable or increasing elephant populations.

Breaking: US Fish and Wildlife Service issues stronger protections ...

By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized critical trade protections for African elephants.

Efforts to boost elephant protection fails at Cites - BBC News

African nations have been split on the best approach to conserve elephant populations that have been reduced by around 30% over the past seven ...

The African Elephant, Africa, and CITES: The Next Step

Part III summarizes failed efforts to control the ivory trade that decimated African elephant populations in eastern Africa before CITES. Members placed the ...

Endangered Species Act proposal would be a win for elephants

African elephant populations are in steep decline, but a new rule proposed under the Endangered Species Act would, if finalized, be a big ...

CITES places temporary ban on the export of live elephants from ...

CITES places temporary ban on the export of live elephants from African countries ... he ongoing Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...

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As the CITES protection took effect, some elephant populations started to recover. However, certain countries, including South Africa ...

World Heritage sites, strongholds for tiger and African elephant ...

The African elephant population has declined by 111,000 in the last decade due in large part to poaching. Selous Game Reserve, recognized as a ...

CITES makes clear its resounding opposition to resumption of ivory ...

Zambia proposed that its elephant population be down listed from Appendix I to Appendix II, also so that it could trade in its registered raw ...

Wildlife on the line at CITES - Animal Defenders International

The African elephant ranges across 37 sub-Saharan African range states. Populations have fallen by more than 50 per cent in the last 40 years, ...

Countries vote to maintain international ivory trade ban at CITES ...

Countries also narrowly rejected a proposal to uplist elephant populations in four southern African countries - Botswana, Namibia, South Africa ...

Legal Opinion on CITES rules on Exports of live African elephants ...

With the current, ongoing poaching crisis, numbers have declined ... trade in the Appendix II listed African elephant populations more restrictive ...

CITES Delivers Mostly Wins for Elephants - NRDC

Zimbabwe and Namibia's elephant populations are currently listed under CITES Appendix II with an annotation that prohibits them from engaging in ...

CITES has no cure for elephant poaching - Robin des Bois

Despite the praise for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on its 40th anniversary, CITES ...

TITLE II—AFRICAN ELEPHANT African CONSERVATION cSvlion

(1) Elephant populations in Africa have declined at an alarm- ing rate since ... sible for African elephant conservation and protection, the CITES.

African elephant species now Endangered and Critically ... - IUCN

The number of African forest elephants fell by more than 86% over a period of 31 years, while the population of African savanna elephants ...

What's next for African elephant states after CITES defeat? - FairPlanet

While these southern African nations are scratching their heads on how to control or reduce their elephant populations, countries like Kenya, ...

CITES stops short of outright ban on zoo trade in wild African ...

An international conference on wildlife trade has agreed to impose a near-total ban on snatching African elephants from the wild to send ...

International Ban on Ivory Sales and its Effects on Elephant ...

Some African countries with strong elephant conservation programmes in place did not support the CITES decision in 1989 to move the African elephant to Appendix ...