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Poachers kill 84 elephants

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwe’s official ‘The Herald’ newspaper reported that a total of 84 elephants were killed by poachers since January, with 31 of them slain in the past two weeks alone in the northern Chewore national park.

    The newspaper claimed that conservationists opposed to the country’s ivory sales were behind the increase in the elephant poaching to discredit Zimbabwe in the eyes of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

    CITES, a United Nations agency, earlier this year relaxed a 1989 total ban on all trade in ivory or elephant products to allow limited ivory sales by Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia.

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