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The country’s Environment Ministry is defending the January 29 auction as a conservation strategy, but conservations say the move is based on false population statistics, disputed claims of human-elephant conflict and puts 3% of Namibia’s last elephants up for sale Namibian elephants in Etosha. Conservationists estimate that between 73 to 84 percent of the government’s quoted elephant population figure consists of ‘trans-boundary’ elephants, those moving between Namibia, Angola Zambia and Botswana. They put the resident elephant population in Namibia at 5,688. They are worried that with 170 heading to the auction block, Namibia is losing 3 percent of its elephant population. Courtesy: Stephan Scholvin ....
The country’s Environment Ministry is defending the January 29 auction as a conservation strategy, but conservationits say the move is based on false population statistics, disputed claims of human-elephant conflict and puts 3% of Namibia’s last elephants up for sale Namibian elephants in Etosha. Conservationists estimate that between 73 to 84 percent of the government’s quoted elephant population figure consists of ‘trans-boundary’ elephants, those moving between Namibia, Angola Zambia and Botswana. They put the resident elephant population in Namibia at 5,688. They are worried that with 170 heading to the auction block, Namibia is losing 3 percent of its elephant population. Courtesy: Stephan Scholvin ....
Namibia is selling the wild elephants, despite the outcry. Photo supplied The Namibian government will put 170 wild elephants up for sale today, 29 January, justified by false population statistics and disputed claims of human-elephant conflict. More than 100,000 people have signed a petition condemning the action… writes Don Pinnock, Daily Maverick. See petition here. The Namibian government says it has too many elephants and that the 170 are problem-causing animals. According to professional guide and conservationist Stephan Scholvin, about 90 are to be captured on former indigenous San ancestral lands which have been seized and distributed to political elites. They sold logging rights in the area to the Chinese, who have “completely decimated” the endangered African rosewoods. ....
. The Namibian government says it has too many elephants and that the 170 are problem-causing animals. According to professional guide and conservationist Stephan Scholvin, about 90 are to be captured on former indigenous San ancestral lands which have been seized and distributed to political elites. They sold logging rights in the area to the Chinese, who have “completely decimated” the endangered African rosewoods. With the government just emerging from a corruption scandal exposed by Al Jazeera, resulting in the imprisonment of the Ministers of Justice and Fisheries, there is deep mistrust over its latest scheme. Elephant capture areas. (Image: Supplied) Many of the targeted elephants are from transnational herds which migrate across countries, as they have for thousands of years. Conservationists argue that they do not belong to any one country for their exploitation or slaughter. ....
Women’s March Cleveland holding fifth annual rally and march Updated Jan 21, 2021; Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio Cleveland women will participate in a national Women’s March event on Saturday, Jan. 23, on Cleveland’s west side. The rally will start at 1 p.m. at Market Square, across from the Westside Market, with speakers and entertainment, followed by a 2:30 p.m. march and caravan across the Carnegie Bridge. Hundreds of Cleveland women are expected to protest racial injustice, violence against women and attacks on reproductive rights. The Women’s March began across the country in 2017, in response to President Donald Trump, whose rhetoric offended and galvanized women during the 2016 election. When he notoriously called his then-opponent Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman,” thousands of women claimed the phrase as their own. ....