{"id":2427,"date":"2018-11-16T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T14:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2018-11-16T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T14:25:36","slug":"tanzania-plans-to-auction-3-5-tonnes-of-hippo-teeth-sparks-outrage-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2018\/11\/16\/tanzania-plans-to-auction-3-5-tonnes-of-hippo-teeth-sparks-outrage-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: Plans to auction 3.5 tonnes of hippo teeth sparks outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wildlife conservation groups have criticised plans by\u00a0Tanzanian authorities\u00a0to auction 3.5 tonnes of hippo teeth next week. They said\u00a0the move could increase poaching.<\/p>\n<p>Licensed dealers will be able to bid for 12,500 pieces of hippo teeth at the tourism and natural resources ministry in the city of Dar es Salaam,\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Wildlife\">wildlife\u00a0<\/a>authorities in the east African nation said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"mpu0ArticleBody\" class=\"ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--mobile ad-wrapper--mpu0\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/conservation\">Conservationists<\/a>\u00a0said\u00a0the sale could encourage the killing of the creatures, which are\u00a0classified as \u201cvulnerable\u201d on the international \u201cred list\u201d of endangered species.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--teads\">\n<div id=\"teads\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"inline-block inline-related align-left item-count-3 \"><\/aside>\n<p>There are up to 130,000 hippos in sub-Saharan\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/africa\">Africa<\/a>, according to estimates.<\/p>\n<p>But the animal\u00a0has become increasingly threatened by a demand for their meat, skin and teeth as well as habitat loss.<\/p>\n<div id=\"teads-amp-ad\" class=\"ad-wrapper ad-wrapper--mobile\"><\/div>\n<p>A regulated trade in hippo parts is allowed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).<\/p>\n<div class=\"connatix\"><\/div>\n<p>Their\u00a0teeth are carved for ornaments and sold in parts of\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\">Asia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bones\u00a0predominantly come from Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, according to CITIES data.<\/p>\n<p>Even though some countries still have healthy populations, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) &#8220;discourages the consumption of hippopotamus ivory and are disappointed to see auctions such as this taking place,\u201d said\u00a0Colman\u00a0O&#8217;Criodain\u00a0an expert in wildlife trade at the organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildlife conservation groups have criticised plans by\u00a0Tanzanian authorities\u00a0to auction 3.5 tonnes of hippo teeth next week. They said\u00a0the move could increase poaching. Licensed dealers will be able to bid for 12,500 pieces of hippo teeth at the tourism and natural resources ministry in the city of Dar es Salaam,\u00a0wildlife\u00a0authorities in the east African nation said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}