Namibia To Sell Wild Elephants

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Namibia To Sell Wild Elephants

[Conservation Action Trust] Plans by the Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) to capture and sell off 170 of the last free-roaming elephants among the communal farming areas of north-western and north-eastern Namibia are proving highly contentious and potentially a big blow to an already struggling local tourism industry.

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