The export ban on hunting trophies for white rhinoceroses from Namibia and elephants from Zambia should be lifted, the two countries are demanding.

Namibia and Zambia’s requests will come up for a vote at an international conference of the 183 countries that have signed on to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) between August 17 and 28 in Geneva.

The pact that was signed in 1973 in Washington places curbs and bans on the cross-border sale of some 5,000 animal and 30,000 plant species.

“No marked decline in population has occurred for 43 years since the re-establishment of this population,” Namibia wrote in its rhino proposal, adding that the country holds the second largest such population in the world after South Africa.

Zambia offered similar arguments regarding…