CITES Compliance Comes to Coup Ville
Jan 23, 2017 | 0 comments
Now where to begin with the title? "CITES" is the Convention on International Resources and Environment which is a great thing. Conservationists believe that the issuance of computer chips to provide ID and DNA verification will eliminate the incentives for people to capture baby elephants in the wild while killing the more difficult family members so that baby elephants can then be raised and passed off for domestic elephants. In the old days, experts would merely offer sugar cane to distinguish the origin of baby elephants. The babies from the wild would not eat the sugar cane because they...