BBC reports that Zimbabwe has asked the European Union to support its bid to sell more than 150,000 tons of ivory that it accumulated due to the global ban on the sale of tasks.
The stockpile of ivory estimated to be worth around $600 million.
The old tusks have been acquired through culling natural deaths, and mostly through seizure of the proceeds of poaching.
The EU ambassadors were taken on a tour of the vaults in Harare, and the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority head told them they reduced the money made and selling the tasks to benefit local communities living around wildlife conservancies.
