comma a keen environmentalist but many of which one is in offense roam across borders into the libya zambia and zimbabwe all 4 countries have called for a global ban on elephant ivory trade to be rid. my 1st guest today has written on elephant poaching and the ivory trade in africa teeth some of all from the university of canton england joins me now welcome to the africa professor do you think his government has made the right call here i think it has for a number of reasons the 1st is that had he not decided to lift the ban on hunting i think he would have faced a really serious problem with the people who live in areas adjacent to large numbers of wildlife the tick the elephants but also lions hyenas well dogs and other predators because the problem the rose when the hunting ban was instituted was that local people lost a huge amount of income from selling hunting quotas to safari hunting companies this could be as much as $600000.00 for a small village and that would be directing money for health clinics schools water pumps and that sort of thing all right if you were very angry when the