Ivory Sales For The Future Has Been Rejected By CITE, Good News For Elephant Lovers

Ivory from elephants has been banned due to the animal poaching. Elephants are lowering in numbers because of the rising number of deaths. More good news for the elephant lovers, as currently the process for authorizing ivory trade was rejected at the CITE conference.

Conventions on International Trade in Endangered Species established a "decision-making mechanism" at CoP14 back in 2007. The concept of the DMM is to compromise a nine-year moratorium on the international ivory trade. Several countries are involved with the CITE.

The poaching crisis had been more rampant with a drop of approximately 110,000 elephants in 2007 to 2015. It brought controversy in the CITE yesterday.

CITE have been negotiating a DMM for the last nine years. In which some parties could establish a process for a future trade in ivory. Yesterday the CITES voted in the majority to end the discussion regarding ivory trade.

At the CoP17 conference this week at Johannesburg South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia propose for the DDM to be settled. But, eight other African states counter proposes for the decision to be abandoned. Both of the proposals were rejected, as reported by National Geographic.

In line with this, the third vote on a proposal to put forward from the CITES Standing Committee itself asking for the parties to resolve on whether to extend the discussion regarding DDM was also rejected. Now, the DMM is off the table.

During the conference, it was also pointed out that the DMM can be revived through plenary sessions in a closed door meeting. They also have identified that Kenya among the countries has the largest number of ivory being transited. Some countries that are against the DMM expressed that they have seen a big loss of animals because of the poachers, and they are doing everything to stop the trafficking networks, according to BBC News.