CAPE MOUNTAIN ZEBRA Achievement
Oct 10, 2018
5 minutes
By Joseph Mülders
Photo © Quintus Strauss
South Africa’s vast wealth of biodiversity is constantly under pressure and often calls for some form of protection and preservation, and from time to time even intervention. This is a massive responsibility that we trust conservation agencies with, expecting them to ‘get it done’. This task can have huge practical limitations that the state conservation bodies may find difficult, if not impossible, to deal with on their own.
To avoid these limitations on functional conservation, there is a very real need for sectors to work together. A perfect case is the Cape mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra), a subspecies that was saved from extinction through this type of collaboration. >>
“South Africa’s proposal to transfer the Cape mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra) from CITES Appendix I to Appendix II has been unanimously approved by CITES CoP17,
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