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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 17621026" data-attributes="member: 218596">Zimbabwe to export elephants             <img src="http://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_slide/2014/12/24/1419242630020196400.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Visitors look on as an elephant and calf cross a road inside  Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, in this Dec. 21, 2014 photo. HARARE: Wildlife authorities in Zimbabwe on Wednesday announced plans to  export at least 62 elephants to top up scant state funding and curb a  ballooning pachyderm population."Zimbabwe got allocations from CITES  to export elephants to suitable destinations and one of the  destinations is China," Jerry Gotora, chairman of the parks and wildlife  authority, said.Exports would start in the first quarter of next  year after assessment of their destination, he said. He said buyers from  the UAE want 15 elephants, China 27 and France between 15 and 20.But  a local animal rights group claimed that elephant calves dragged from  their mothers were being sent squashed in containers to Maputo for  export to China."There is nothing unusual about the exports," Gotora  countered. "The major reason we are selling off the elephants is  because we want to ensure sustainable use of our natural resources."We  have 80,000 elephants against a carrying capacity of 42,000 and this is  not sustainable in the long run. The exports are carefully controlled  by CITES."All those making noise about it are people who do not want Zimbabwe to benefit from its resources."Last  year at least 300 elephants died in Hwange national park after poachers  poisoned the environs of their watering halls with cyanide.</blockquote>

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