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  3. Zimbabwe makes ivory stockpile sale plea

    A Zimbabwe National Parks' employee in a room with piles of elephant ivory stored inside a strong room where Zimbabwe's ivory is secured during a tour of the stockpile by European Union envoys, in Harare, on May 16, 2022
    Image caption: Zimbabwe allowed photographers to take pictures of its ivory stockpile this week

    Zimbabwe’s government wants to sell some of its ivory and rhino horn stockpile - estimated to be around $600m (£480m) by the state-run Herald newspaper - to help fund its conservation efforts.

    Environment Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu made the appeal ahead of a world conservation conference that is to be held in Panama in November.

    He told the BBC that close to 65% of the world’s elephant population was in the country which had a huge impact on human habits.

    The Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) only permits the trade in elephants in exceptional circumstances.

    “Conservation is very expensive,” the minister told the BBC’s Newsday programme.

    He said that he did not want the issue to be politicised and that on two previous occasions that Cites had allowed ivory stockpile sales, the money had been ploughed back into protecting wildlife.

    The Covid pandemic had also meant that tourism revenues - used for conservation - had plummeted over the last two years, he said.

  4. Gabon plea to save forests to halt climate change

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    David Bamford, Newsroom

    An elephant in Gabon
    Image caption: Almost 90% of Gabon is covered by tropical woodland

    Gabon has called on developed nations to pay for the upkeep of the central African country's mangroves and forests that are helping to absorb the world's excess carbon.

    Gabon's Minister for Forests, Seas and Environment, Lee White, said that failing to conserve the dense rainforest of the Congo Basin would mean the world has lost the fight against climate change.

    Gabon is one of the most carbon-positive countries in the world, and says it wants to further limit the impact of its extractive industries, including oil and logging.

    Almost 90% of Gabon is covered by tropical woodland that is home to endangered species including gorillas, elephants and chimpanzees; its coastline has numerous hump-backed whales.