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Iconic African game to be focus at world wildlife conference

FILE - An old male lion raises his head above the long grass in the early morning, in the savannah of the Maasai Mara, south-western Kenya on July 7, 2015. Iconic African wildlife such as elephants, big cats, rosewood trees, pangolins and marine turtles will be central to discussions of the World Wildlife Conference slated for Panama later in 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) FILE - Fikiri Kiponda, left, and others from the Local Ocean Conservation group carry a green turtle that was unintentionally caught in a fisherman's net, before releasing it back into the Watamu National Marine Park on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya on Sept. 22, 2021. Iconic African wildlife such as elephants, big cats, rosewood trees, pangolins and marine turtles will be central to discussions of the World Wildlife Conference slated for Panama later in 2022. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File) FILE - Two-month-old orphaned baby elephant Ajabu is given a dust-bath in the red earth after being fed milk from a bottle by a keeper, as she is too young to do it herself, at an event to commemorate World Environment Day at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya on June 5, 2013. Iconic African wildlife such as elephants, big cats, rosewood trees, pangolins and marine turtles will be central to discussions of the World Wildlife Conference slated for Panama later in 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) FILE - An ivory statue, right, lies on top of pyres of ivory as they are set on fire in a dramatic statement against the trade in ivory and products from endangered species, in Nairobi National Park, Kenya on April 30, 2016. Iconic African wildlife such as elephants, big cats, rosewood trees, pangolins and marine turtles will be central to discussions of the World Wildlife Conference slated for Panama later in 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) FILE - Delivery men load Chinese-style furniture made from African rosewood outside a furniture shop in Beijing, China on Oct. 23, 2012. Iconic African wildlife such as elephants, big cats, rosewood trees, pangolins and marine turtles will be central to discussions of the World Wildlife Conference slated for Panama later in 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) FILE - Nicci Wright, a wildlife rehabilitation expert and executive director of the African Pangolin Working Group in South Africa, holds a pangolin at a Wildlife Veterinary Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa on Oct. 18, 2020. Iconic African wildlife such as elephants, big cats, rosewood trees, pangolins and marine turtles will be central to discussions of the World Wildlife Conference slated for Panama later in 2022. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)