Some of the captured elephants have been sent to a zoo in the United Arab Emirates, allegedly in violation of the international treaty that regulates country-to-country wildlife trade
Last year, the International Union for Conservation of Natureand forest elephants as critically endangered. Decades of ivory poaching have taken a heavy toll, and as few as 400,000 elephants remain in the wild across Africa.
, had bought some of the elephants. “We do not have any information at this stage on how many elephants or whether the elephants have arrived or not,” the organization toldThe original auction notice specified that bidders must arrange all logistics for the capture and export of the elephants, including any infants or juveniles, and must keep family groups together.
Burkina Faso, Senegal, and others also decried the international sales. We “deplore” this export, Burkina Faso’s representative said.
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