Its range extends over 37 states (sub-Saharan Africa) but 4 states * have obtained that their elephant population is transferred to Appendix II (* Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe in 1997, South Africa in 2000) in order organize the marketing of ivory stocks.

In Geneva, these four countries are proposing to further reduce the conditions for the protection of elephants on their territory in order to authorize new sales from registered stocks. The difficulty is always the same, as soon as we reopen, even partially, the legal ivory trade, all poached ivory is engulfed in it… This also encourages other countries to lower the level of protection of “ their »elephants, such as Zambia which presented a proposal to transfer its population to Appendix II.