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Elephant leather bid fails

11/09/2019

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has rejected a request from Zambia to allow trade in elephant hides and elephant leather. CITES lists almost all African elephants in its Appendix I, which means trade involving any part of animals “taken from the wild” is prohibited. Elephants from countries with large...

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