Windhoek:
Namibia has place 170 “high value” wild elephants up for sale due to drought and an improve in elephant numbers, the southern African country’s environmental ministry stated on Wednesday.
An advertisement carried by state-owned everyday New Era stated an improve in incidents of human-elephant conflict motivated the sale of the big mammal that is at danger of extinction due to poaching and ecological things.
The Ministry of Environment Forestry and Tourism stated it would auction the animals to anybody in Namibia or abroad who could meet the strict criteria, which involve quarantine facilities and a game-proof fence certificate for the home exactly where the elephants will be kept.
Foreign purchasers need to also supply proof that conservation authorities in their nations will permit them to export elephants to their nations.
Like numerous other African nations, Namibia is attempting to strike a balance amongst guarding higher-worth species like elephants and rhinos, when managing the danger they pose when they encroach on locations of human habitation.
Namibia’s conservation drive, which has observed its elephant population jump from about 7,500 in 1995 to 24,000 in 2019 according to government figures, has enjoyed international assistance.
But final year Namibia stated it was taking into consideration withdrawing from the guidelines that govern the worldwide trade in endangered species. This was right after nations voted through a CITES meeting to reject proposals to unwind restrictions on hunting and exporting its white rhinos.
The nation desires to let additional trophy hunting and the export of reside animals, arguing that the funds it would raise would assistance it to guard the species.
In October it place 70 female and 30 male buffalos from Waterberg Plateau Park in central Namibia up for sale in a bid to ease stress on grazing land.
The arid southern African nation also auctioned 1,000 animals from national parks, such as 500 buffalos in 2019 as it faced the worst drought in a century.
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