Press Association: Conservationists have hit out at attempts by Tanzania to hold a one-off sale of its ivory stockpile and downgrade the level of protection for the country’s elephants.
The east African country has formally applied to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) to allow it to hold a sale of more than 100 tonnes of ivory to Japan and China.
Tanzania also wants to downlist the protection of its elephants from the highest category to allow trade in elephant hunting trophies,…

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