ENVIRONMENTAL Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said South Africa had made great progress in bringing back the mountain zebra from extinction and was optimistic that it would be reclassified so they could be the subjects of controlled limited trade.She said South Africa’s proposals on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) were expected to be adopted at the 17th conference of the parties to the convention, which is meeting in Sandton.The country has made proposals on mountain zebra and Natal ginger aiming to have them moved from appendix I — which is a list of animals and flora threatened with extinction and cannot be traded at all — to appendix II, which allows controlled limited trade.The conference, which was opened on Saturday by President Jacob Zuma, includes delegates from 183 countries which study dozens of proposals to soften or harden trade restrictions on some 500 species, including a couple from South Africa."Our proposals a...
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