Conservationists yesterday attacked a decision by the international community to allow China to buy stockpiles of elephant ivory saying it would lead to more elephants being killed in Africa.
A meeting of the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), in Geneva, agreed that China could bid for up to 108 tonnes of ivory, collected from culls and natural deaths and offered for sale by Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Cites judged that China, which wants to continue an ivory carving tradition, had put sufficient measures in place to regulate sales and crack down on the illegal domestic trade.
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