Conservation Groups Call for Mozambique Sanctions as Poaching Continues Unabated
The Obama administration should impose trade sanctions against Mozambique for its failure to rein in pervasive poaching in the region allegedly committed by Mozambican nationals, said the Environmental Investigation Agency and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) in a joint July…
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2 statement. The Mozambican government and nationals have routinely violated the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) for years by participating in illegal rhino horn and elephant ivory trade, said the two organizations. "Many of the crime syndicates have moved their base of operation from South Africa to Mozambique, where they are able to act with impunity," said Susie Ellis, executive director of IRF, in the statement. "Mozambican poachers are highly organized and are slaughtering rhinos and elephants on a daily basis, while the Mozambican government turns a blind eye." President Barack Obama is able to impose sanctions on any nation that undermines an international conservation pact through the Perry Amendment to the U.S. Fishermen’s Protective Act, said the organizations.