17 August 2021
Investigation derails Namibia’s key argument for sale of endangered elephants
By Tracy Keeling – The Canary Namibia confirmed on 11 August that it’s going ahead with a controversial sale of endangered elephants. Officials claim the sell-off will “minimise human-elephant conflicts” in the areas from which they’ll take the elephants. But an investigation threatens to derail this assertion, as it’s apparently found that such conflicts are minimal in most of the targeted areas. An investigation by the...