Namibia: To Sell or Burn Namibia's Ivory Stockpile?

5 December 2016

London — Namibia is being urged to burn to ashes its piles of ivory - worth millions of dollars - but government insists it wants to sell them in order to generate funds to protect the country's wildlife against poaching and illicit trade.

President Hage Geingob was unapologetic on the matter when he met Britain's minister for Africa and the Middle East Tobias Ellwood in London last week, after the minister suggested that Namibia must demonstrate to the world that it is serious against poaching by burning all its ivory stocks.

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