Zimbabwe is collecting on average 1,1 tons of ivory monthly!

The government is sitting on 62,3 tons of ivory valued at approximately $15,6 million, and it is running out of storage space, with less than three tons to fill up the remaining space.
This news gives us an idea of the poaching that is going on in Zimbabwe but, if you read between the lines, it also tries to put forward once again the dangerous proposal for a sale to China of their ivory stock.

And we cannot avoid asking ourselves: is keeping wildlife park rangers under-staffed and under-equipped a strategy of the government to fuel the poaching/ivory crisis?

The next CITES meeting is less than 3 years away, and some countries are already beginning with their public relation efforts. But we are not sleeping and we’ll try to stop them.

Previous decisions allowing “legal” sale of ivory to China and Japan have stimulated, not reduced, demand and directly contributed to the poaching.

Photo:
This unusual behaviour has rarely been photographed but photographer Morkel Erasmus caught three elephant as the sun rose over the UNESCO World Heritage site of Mana Pools.