DL,Darrell Lush wrote:I also see that CITES has cleared 51 000 tons of ivory for sale. Has anybody questioned exactly where that ivory came from ? I tell you know that much of it came from Botswana/northern Namibia. Elephants shot indiscriminately by government ministers and their senior army officer buddies. Makes me want to puke.
I think the ivory from elephants shot by crazed, gunhappy SADF rank has long been sold, and has funded all sorts of things such as beach houses and shitty little lapas and living room bars. Much of Angola's ivory was used by Savimbi to fund his dirty war. Jan Breytenbach wrote a novel about it called The Plunderers - it was this clash that lead to his fall from grace with the SADF's top brass.
The ivory up for sale is - allegedly
- from elephant culls, but there must be very much that has been confiscated from poachers. And this raises a huge ethical issue about the ivory trade. But we knew that already ... Kudu
PS 80 rhino poached in SA this year. The Chinese are getting richer, they have fingers all over Africa now, and rhino horn is a great prize
