Southern African states make recent pitch to commerce $1 billion ivory stockpile
CITES, an inter-governmental physique made up of 184 members, regulates wildlife commerce to be able to defend sure species from over-exploitation. In 1989, CITES banned the worldwide business commerce in African elephant ivory after populations of the animal declined sharply within the previous decade. Regardless of the ban, CITES in 1999 and 2008 allowed some…