CITES CoP18 Report
“The impassioned plea of speaker after speaker from the SADC region on the need for sustainable utilisation (SU) as a cornerstone requirement for conservation in Africa was ignored as was sovereign rights, the needs of rural communities and poverty alleviation.”
“Don’t confuse me with the facts, I have already made up my mind” was very much the attitude of the parties (government representatives) of some 135 registered members of the original 183 parties attending CoP18 in Geneva.
That the range states of East and West Africa supported by non-range states dictate to the SADC region, where 90% of giraffe, elephant and rhino are
