<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2b8dd873-225b-469b-8542-0dfe81d951ca/94FF1795-83C3-4480-B7F3-B5BD6D935AEB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ecoworldly.com/2009/11/03/has-tanzania-broken-ranks-with-eac-over-elephant-ivory-trade/" href="http://ecoworldly.com/2009/11/03/has-tanzania-broken-ranks-with-eac-over-elephant-ivory-trade/" style="font-size: 11px;">ecoworldly.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoworldly.com/2009/11/03/has-tanzania-broken-ranks-with-eac-over-elephant-ivory-trade/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ecoworldly.com/img/720D41D0-C0C8-4E94-8777-31D71CFF6EAA" alt="Elephant profile for article about Tanzania asking for irresponsible and short-sighted lift on ivory trade ban" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoworldly.com/2009/11/03/has-tanzania-broken-ranks-with-eac-over-elephant-ivory-trade/"><H3>Tanzania is reportedly preparing to ask CITES to lift the trade ban on elephant ivory, much to the dismay of its EAC neighbors, conservationists, and members of the tourism industry.</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoworldly.com/2009/11/03/has-tanzania-broken-ranks-with-eac-over-elephant-ivory-trade/"><P>In a move that would surely undermine East African conservation efforts, Tanzania has taken up the position that a sanctioned sale of elephant ivory would provide much-needed financial support to the country’s anti-poaching measures.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoworldly.com/2009/11/03/has-tanzania-broken-ranks-with-eac-over-elephant-ivory-trade/"><P>This comes as a shock to the East African Community (EAC), considering that last year’s sanctioning of a one-off ivory auction is to blame for igniting a scourge of rampant elephant killings throughout Africa - particularly Kenya.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoworldly.com/2009/11/03/has-tanzania-broken-ranks-with-eac-over-elephant-ivory-trade/"><P>According to Tanzania’s<A target="_blank" href="http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/newe.php?id=15047" linkindex="22"> The Citizen</A>, both Tanzania and Zambia have prepared to appeal for the lift of the ivory trade ban at the March 2010 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Quatar.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoworldly.com/2009/11/03/has-tanzania-broken-ranks-with-eac-over-elephant-ivory-trade/">Tanzania’s position will not be welcomed by the EAC, conservationists or the tourism industry.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/94FF1795-83C3-4480-B7F3-B5BD6D935AEB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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