Monday 9 February 2015

Otmane El Rhazi : Sri Lanka: Amnesty for Illegal Holding of Elephants

Otmane El Rhazi from Law Library of Congress: Global Legal Monitor.



Animal protection; Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), 1973; Endangered species - Sri Lanka recently announced a two-week period of amnesty for those illegally keeping elephants, if they hand the animals over to the government voluntarily. The decision, designed to save the lives of the elephants in... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide.

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