(Posted 07th December 2025)
| Sheree Bega, Mail & Guardian (South Africa) |
| Attempts by several Southern African nations to relax international trade restrictions on giraffes, elephants and rhinos have been rejected at a major United Nations wildlife summit. Countries voted down all four proposals that sought to weaken existing protections at the 20th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites CoP20) underway in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. |
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