On Tuesday 8 March, the Fondation Franz Weber (FFW) deplored the confirmation, two days earlier, of the sale by the Namibian government of 22 wild elephants to a zoo in the United Arab Emirates, in violation of the CITES Convention, according to the NGO.
With a meeting of the CITES Standing Committee (7-11 March, Lyon, France) underway to consider the legality of this decision on 9 March, FFW is calling on all parties to the Convention to reject Namibia’s justification that such exports...