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Lusaka supports total ivory ban

    JOHANNESBURG

    In contrast to its neighbours in southern Africa, Zambia has said it will tell the 11th conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Nairobi, Kenya this week that it supports a total ban on the ivory trade.

    News reports quoted tourism ministry spokesman Gabriel Tembo as saying Zambia would not join the call of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana for eased restrictions on ivory sales. Senior conservation figures in Zambia's diplomatic community said that Zambian police seized 53 elephant tusks at the Lusaka international airport last week alone. Tembo said that
    lifting the ban could encourage poachers to hunt in Zambia's rich parks for elephant tusks.

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