Zimbabwean wildlife
activists are in a race against time to stop the government from
selling 35 baby elephants to China and Pakistan after it emerged that
the state was planning to secretly trade the young jumbos.
Lenin Chisaira,
Director of Advocacy4Earth, an environmental lobby group which is suing
the government over the sale, alleging that government has been trying,
since last year, to nicodemusly sell the baby elephants to China but
were delayed by a High Court application which they filed in May this
year.
"The ongoing case
has been that the state wants to sell the elephants through the backdoor
and we have reliable information that they can fly out tomorrow and
Thursday.
