Wildlife charities booted from CITES ivory talks
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:
GENEVA--Wildlife charities including the Born Free Foundation, Elephant Family, the Environmental Investigation Agency, Humane Society International, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Species Survival Network, and World Wildlife Fund were on August 17, 2011 excluded from attending “deliberations concerning elephant conservation, the ivory trade, and China’s increasing involvement in illegal ivory trade” at the 61st Standing Committee meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, e-mailed Rudy Rosensweig of Born Free USA to global media. Read more