Thus, when Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe (all having relatively large stocks of ivory) proposed downgrading the elephant in the CITES appendices, the majority of countries, for a number of considerations, cast affirmative votes.
種種理由，因此當象牙庫存量較高的波札那、那米比亞、辛巴威三國提案大象降級時，大部份國家在更多元的考量下投下贊成票。