Endangered species

By Jeremy Hance Nearly twenty years ago the ivory trade was banned by Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Many saw this as the most important step in preventing the continued loss of elephants at the hands of poachers, and for awhile poaching slowed down. But now elephants ar...

The CITES office in Geneva confirmed that Monaco has submitted a formal bid to add bluefin tuna to the Annex I list of threatened species and that the proposal will be part of the formal agenda at the next general conference in Doha, Qatar, in March 2010. An Annex I listing grants species the h...

For the past 20 years, members of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) have allowed a limited legal ivory trade. But as ivory prices continue to rise on the black market, hundred of elephants and rhinos are being slaughtered annually -- threatening the alr...

 Kuwait It's important to first note that wild Ostrich are what's called an Appendix 1 endangered species, as classified by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Appendix 1 animals are the most endangered, and trade in these ...

The research focuses on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), which is the largest international agreement on species conservation. CITES is implemented through several EU regulations1. ...

  USA This horrible fact is what prompted the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (more easily referred to as CITES) to ban the international trade of caviar from the world's top-producing river basins in 2005. ...

 NY Tiffany also backs the reauthorization of a US Coral Reef Conservation Act and the addition of red coral to the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Appendix II, which lists species that could become threatened with ...

 Germany Tiffany also backs the reauthorization of a US Coral Reef Conservation Act and the addition of red coral to the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Appendix II, which lists species that could become threatened with ...

Media Newswire (press release), NY Sperm whales are classified as "endangered" under the Endangered Species Act ( ESA ), and are listed on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ). It is illegal to import parts of sperm ...

 UK All international trade in marine turtles is banned under CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). Already threatened by habitat degradation, accidental or opportunistic capture by fishermen and the ...