by Adam Cruise | Nov 24, 2020 | News
By Tracy Keeling – The Canary Zimbabwe sold 32 baby elephants to China in October 2019, after tearing them away from their wild families in 2018, for the latter country’s use in zoos. The transaction was very controversial and criticised by many, including...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 28, 2019 | News
By Denton Daily A near-total ban on taking baby African elephants from the wild and selling them to zoos has been approved at a meeting in Geneva. Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) decided to tighten the rules after days of...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 30, 2019 | Press Releases
By FONDATION FRANZ WEBER On August 27th, the 18th Conference of the Parties to CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) agreed to restrict exports of wild-caught African elephants to conservation programmes within their natural habitats,...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 25, 2019 | News
By Tracy Keeling, The Canary 46 countries have given people a reason to be proud of the global community. They voted to end the cruel capture of wild (usually young) African elephants for exportation to foreign zoos and circuses. The EU, however, didn’t vote on the...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 24, 2019 | News
By Jevans Nyabiage, The South China Morning Post China, one of the leading buyers of African elephants, could face difficulty in acquiring the mammals if a widening of a ban on their sale to zoos is ratified next week by the global regulator of wildlife trade. A...
