Africa | The Ban on Ivory Trade is Necessary to Protect Elephants
The following viewpoint is taken from a 1996 speech by Abdul Shareef, a diplomat and head of the Tanzanian High Commission to Great Britain. Shareef argues that elephant populations in Tanzania and other African countries plunged during the 1970s and 1980s due to poaching fueled by the ivory trade. Efforts by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to partially control the trade did little to stop illegal hunting, he maintains. Only when CITES agreed in 1989 to a flat ban of all international trade in ivory did elephant populations begin to recover. Shareef...
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Chapter 1: What Economic Development Strategies Are Best for Africa?
- Chapter 1 Preface
- Africa Should Integrate Within the Global Economy
- Africa Should Resist Foreign Economic Exploitation
- Africa Should Embrace the Prescriptions of the World Bank and IMF
- Africa Should Reject the Prescriptions of the World Bank and IMF
- Foreign Aid Promotes African Development
- Foreign Aid Hinders African Development
- Africa Needs Greater Debt Relief From Foreign Creditors
- Africa Has Sufficient Debt Relief
- Chapter 1 Periodical Bibliography
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Chapter 2: What Policies Can Best Foster Peace in Africa?
- Chapter 2 Preface
- The Organization of African Unity Can Reduce Conflict
- Abolishing Nation-States Can Reduce Conflict
- U.S. Military Assistance To African Armies Can Improve Peacekeeping
- U.S. Military Assistance to African Armies is Harmful
- War-Crimes Tribunals Might Prolong Violence in Rwanda
- War-Crimes Tribunals Must Punish Those Responsible for Genocide in Rwanda
- Chapter 2 Periodical Bibliography
- Chapter 3: What Is the State of Human Rights in Africa?
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Chapter 4: How Should Africa’s Wildlife Be Managed?
- Chapter 4 Preface
- Africa's Wilderness Must Be Preserved
- Africa's Wilderness Should Be Commercially Utilized To Benefit Local Communities
- Commercial Hunting of Wildlife Can be Beneficial
- Commercial Hunting of Wildlife is not Beneficial
- The Ban on Ivory Trade is Necessary to Protect Elephants
- The Ban on International Ivory Trade Has Harmful Consequences
- Chapter 4 Periodical Bibliography
- Chronology of Events
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