HARARE - An international committee at a world forum on endangered species recommended yesterday that three southern African states be allowed to sell ivory to Japan in 18 months on an experimental basis and under strict monitoring.
The 19 member committee was established yesterday by a 10 day Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to seek a compromise to a controversial proposal by Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to be exempted from a 1989 world ban in ivory trade.