The African Elephant Summit – a follow up of the first Elephant Summit in 2013 in Gaborone, Botswana to discuss the emerging “Elephant Crisis”, co-hosted by IUCN – was organised in March by the Government of Botswana with financial support from a few
donors. This meeting was attended by government delegates up to the level of permanent secretaries (except for Angola whose Minister attended) and by NGO and IGO representatives.
A rather interesting comment by a senior member of the Chinese
delegation was a side query to the range state members on whether there
is any interest in selling other parts of the dead elephant to the
Chinese market, e.g. the trunk and reproductive organs, namely the
penis! This was apparently not meant as a joke and was said in the
sitting session of all the Technical Heads chaired by the Wildlife
Minister of Botswana.
Is this really the Chinese idea of conservation. They just don't get it do they!
Total No of Rhinos slaughtered in South Africa to End of December 2021 = 451 Official figures. Note: the number of wild rhinos in Kruger has declined from 3,500 to 2,800 in one year. Read my blog below for Headlines from around the World concerning the Global Catastrophe that is causing the biggest mass extinction since the Permian Period, and News of the fight to stop the slaughter of the Planet's Wildlife before it is too late.
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