Botswana has climbed down on its threats to withdraw from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
This is contained in the government white paper on the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Review of the Constitution of Botswana which was approved by Cabinet recently.
According to the white paper the Government rejected the Commission’s recommendation that Botswana should withdraw from (CITES) cull elephants and sell the tusks to willing buyers for the development of the affected communities or destroy such tusks by burning, to mitigate the impact of elephant destruction on communities.
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