(FILES) This file photo taken on May 21, 2015 shows an elephant at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy at the foot of Mount Kenya, approximately 300 km north of the capital Nairobi. - The regulator of global wildlife trade will impose a near-total ban on sending African elephants captured from the wild to zoos after a final vote on the issue on August 27, 2019. Following a heated debate at a meeting of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Geneva, countries approved a proposed text after a revision by the European Union watered down the ban slightly. (Photo by Tony KARUMBA / AFP)