NEWS: Zimbabwe has enacted new laws imposing stiffer penalties of up to 11 years of jail for poaching of elephants and protected animals.
The Elephant Advocacy League praises this new law. This is the direction to take for all African countries.
But let’s not forget that Zimbabwe currently has a stockpile of over 50 tonnes of confiscated ivory, worth over US$10 million, and the country still wants to sell it to China.
If in the future CITES will allow this sale (they did it already twice in the past) it would be a disaster and will fuel the ivory market. It will be the end of the elephants.
Zimbabwe also still allows the killing of elephants for trophies (see picture).
