A new report has exposed large-scale illegal ivory trading in Tanzania and Zambia on the eve of the opening of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Doha, Qatar. Both Tanzania and Zambia have proposed selling their ivory stocks despite intensive elephant poaching activities and illegal ivory trade within their countries. The report, ‘Open Season – The Burgeoning Illegal Ivory Trade in Tanzania and Zambia’, was released on Friday by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a non-profit group based in Washington, DC and London...

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