Some African countries with elephant populations say they want to lift an international ban on ivory trading and culling elephant herds. Fourteen African countries say they want communities with elephant populations to benefit from them. As a result, they issued a communique Thursday after a four-day conference asking for a ban to be lifted on ivory trading and elephant culling. We are currently spending a lot of money taking custody of our ivory, which ivory we are restricted from trading. The European Union opposes lifting the ban on elephant ivory trading and questions the data Zimbabwe used to estimate of its elephant population.

Source: Ethiopian News May 30, 2022 19:00 UTC