Save the Elephants - CITES and the Ivory Trade Campaign

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Once again the two year CITES cycle has revolved and the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) of the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was held in Doha, Qatar. As in the past, Save the Elephants (STE) was involved in the preparations in the run up to, and also during the CITES Conference. We continue to believe that a renewed ivory trade remains the greatest potential threat to elephants.

Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton represented Save the Elephants in Doha and worked tirelesly and very closely with the Kenya Government and other Elephant Forums campaigning against the Tanzanian and Zambian proposals to downlist their elephants to appendix II and sell their stockpiles. Both Tanzania and Zambia failed to get enough votes to pass their proposals, and although this is good news, it is a temporary solution for the elephants as serious issues remain.

Click on the links below to read our latest paper on the Ivory Trade (published in SCIENCE), STE's & ElephantVoices' joint statement, 1975 Caughley & Goddard's report on the Abundance and distribution of elephants in the Luangwa valley, Zambia, and STE's MIKE report to COP15. We feel these reports carry crucial information on elephant issues that were discussed in Doha.


2010 Wasser et al Elephants, Ivory and Trade	2010 STE-EV Joint Statement	1975 Caughley et al Abundance and distribution of elephants in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia
1986 Douglas-Hamilton et al Aerial Census of Wildlife in the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
	1979 Douglas-Hamilton et al Luangwa Valley Elephant, Rhino, and Wildlife Survey	2010 This report is from our colleagues working on Central African Elephant data about the on going collapse of elephant populations throughout that region.

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