African Ivory

The Brewing Battle Over Africa’s Ivory

HWANGE, Zimbabwe—Fourteen years since the last legal com­mer­cial sale of ivory, south­ern African coun­tries are lob­by­ing to sell tons of tusks held in stor­age. As these states sub­mit pro­pos­als to the Unit­ed Nations Con­ven­tion on Inter­na­tion­al Trade in Endan­gered Species of Wild Fau­na and Flo­ra (CITES) sum­mit in Novem­ber, the fate of African ivory is…