The 16 th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was poised to be historic. Not only was 2013 the 40 th anniversary of CITES, but never ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. UNESCO has put rainforests in Madagascar on its List of World Heritage in Danger. In 2013, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...

In the closing plenary session of the most recent meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP18, Geneva, 26 August 2019), a declaration was made by nine members of the Southern African ...

AWI joined several hundred delegates representing nearly 80 countries and a similar number of observer organizations in Geneva this July for the 33 rd meeting of the Convention on International Trade ...

WWF issued the following statement today in response to decisions from world governments to offer better protection for five species of sharks at CITES Carlos Drews, head of WWF’s delegation at the ...

Cambridge, UK, 8th February 2019—A stakeholder workshop held in the David Attenborough Building last month examined the potential role of voluntary third-party sustainability certification schemes in ...

Following the 77th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee (SC77), an unusual number of countries are suddenly facing the stark prospect of not being able to internationally trade in CITES-listed ...

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) was set up in 1975 to protect wild species from ...

Hundreds of species on agenda of largest ever wildlife trade meeting Forty years ago, the multi-billion dollar international trade in endangered wildlife was largely a free-for-all. While many ...

Four decades ago, the world adopted a new trading regime. It didn’t cover agriculture, manufacturing or finance, but one of the world’s most finite riches: its biodiversity. The officials meeting that ...

A big hand for the Nile Crocodile, the poster animal for the argument that regulated international trade can save endangered species. Though perhaps a gentle round of applause from a suitable distance ...