Host Steve Curwood speaks with Reuters correspondent Kieran Murray about this week’s meeting of the International Convention on Trade in Endangered Species. Conservationists and representatives from 150 nations are converging in Nairobi, Kenya, to debate regulations on buying and selling products everything from elephant tusks to medicinal plants.
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