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Zambia Crocodile
04/28/2002
The Zambia Ministry is not issuing CITES permits to export crocodile
sport hunting trophies from Zambia. At my request, Ken Stansell of the
US Fish & Wildlife Service met with the new director from Zambia as a
courtesy to unravel the problem. It appears that through error the
crocodile tags that Zambia received from the CITES Secretariat’s
administrative offices in Europe are those for commercial/captive
breeding, not those appropriate for sport-taken trophies. There are two
kinds of tags, and Zambia only received the commercial kind. This is
merely an administrative mistake that will be resolved successfully in
due course. Conservation Force has asked the IUCN Crocodile Specialist
Group, as well as Dole Lewis of ADMADE, to ferret out the problem, but
thus far we have no response from the Zambian authorities, whom we have
also written to directly.