Lift On Ivory Ban As Part Of Cheetah Deal With Namibia? What Centre Said
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India and Namibia had on July 20 signed a pact on "wildlife conservation and sustainable biodiversity utilisation".
The environment ministry on Thursday said a news report on Namibia seeking India's support for lifting a UN ban on trade of ivory as part of the cheetah deal "largely relies on speculation, hearsay and not on facts".
India and Namibia had on July 20 signed a pact on "wildlife conservation and sustainable biodiversity utilisation".
The MoU said the two countries "should seek to promote biodiversity conservation with specific focus on conservation and restoration of cheetah in their former range areas from which they went extinct" and "sharing and exchange of expertise and capacities aimed at promoting cheetah conservation in two countries".
The report said: "While the word ivory has not been mentioned, Namibia has already sought India's backing, under the commitment to support 'sustainable management' at CITES, for its longstanding proposal to allow trade in ivory derived from elephants."
