The pro-sale Africans, who face massive opposition from with their own continent ,accuse Western wildlife charities of dictating how they should protect their elephants.

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Elephants – being poached for their tusks at an even faster rate than conservations fear – dominate deliberations at the conference of the parties to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Spiecies of flora and fauna that got underway in Sandton yesterday.

Zambia’s tourism minister Stephen Mwansa told journalists animal charities should not dictate to Africans and should leave them alone.

At least 30 African countries, however, are pushing for an immediate and permanent ban on the ivory trade and the destruction of stockpiles of tusks.

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