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🗓️ 6 October 2016
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Elephant populations are being decimated but the conservation world remains divided over how best to deal with it.
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0:00.0 | This is a BBC podcast. |
0:02.0 | You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. |
0:08.0 | I'm Alistelithhead and for this week's assignment here on the BBC World Service Africa's |
0:16.4 | Ivory Dilemma. How to Save the Threatened African Elephant from its path towards extinction. I'll be taking you from the front lines of the |
0:24.6 | war on poachers and illegal ivory traffickers to inside the halls of the |
0:29.2 | CITES conference rooms here in Joburg where there's been heated debate late into the night. |
0:35.0 | So my proposed order of business will be elephants and we will start with proposal number 14. |
0:44.0 | Banning legal traits in this majestic species is not going to solve the problem. |
0:51.0 | Legal traits can contribute to... That's us today, send a very clear message. |
0:57.1 | The trade must stop. The United States has been consistent and emphatic in opposing any resumption in trade of ivory at this time. |
1:06.0 | In Zimbabwe, if people are able to benefit from their ivory, |
1:10.0 | then they will protect elephant as being so valuable. |
1:13.0 | They will not... |
1:14.0 | Well, it's been a pretty intense debate. |
1:16.0 | We've heard from government ministers, from delegation leaders, |
1:19.0 | and that's clearly a major difference of opinion here. |
1:21.0 | The votes will decide whether ivory will be |
1:23.4 | sold again or whether the legal trade will be completely shut down. It's the route |
1:27.6 | everyone here at the CITES conference saw coming, a clash of very different |
1:31.5 | ideologies which has gone on for decades but is so important |
1:35.1 | given the current poaching crisis. The voting is about to start. |
1:40.1 | So again you will have 30 seconds to register your vote and the vote is open now. |
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