Angola Hit with Trade Sanction Over Failure to Tackle Elephant Poaching and Ivory Trafficking
Authors:
Environmental Investigation Agency
Date:
15 February 2024
Categories:
Criminal Enforcement,
Environmental Crime
Keyword:
Endangered Species,
Poaching
Region:
Africa,
Asia & Pacific
Language:
English
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Angola has been formally sanctioned for failing to make progress in tackling the illegal trade in elephant ivory since 2020.
Effective as of 10 January 2024, the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has recommended that all commercial trade in CITES-listed species with Angola be suspended until further notice.
Angola has been in the National Ivory Action Plan (NIAP) process under CITES since 2014. However, at the most recent meeting of the Standing Committee in November 2023 (SC77), governments, the CITES Secretariat and civil society organisations noted with concern that the central African country was making inadequate progress to implement the action plan.