That piece fails to address that the reason is that the Western nations stopped financing so much the anti poaching enforcement in african countries. It was no

That piece fails to address that the reason is that the Western nations stopped financing so much the anti poaching enforcement in african countries. It was not exactly the lift of the ban, it was that Western nations decided that the problem was controlled, or that it was time that African nation started taking care of the poaching problem themselves and cut funding.