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Amazon region countries move forward in the use of new technologies to ensure legal trade in wildlife
Member countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization met in Quito, Ecuador from 22 to 23 August 2013 to take stock of progress made in the implementation of a project...
CITES pays tribute to Françoise Burhenne-Guilmin
Françoise Burhenne-Guilmin (photo: IUCN ELP) With great sadness the Secretariat must report the untimely death of Dr Françoise Burhenne-Guilmin, one of the main architects of CITES. After graduating as a...
Wildlife crime is robbing the future of Africa - Jeune Afrique
Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova and CITES Secretary-General John E. Scanlon Given the current rate of poaching, children from West or Central Africa will one day speak of elephants and...
21 Branch offices of the Chinese CITES Management Authority meet with the CITES Secretary-General
The CITES Secretary-General has for the first time met with the 21 Branch offices of the Chinese Management Authority at a National CITES Retreat and Training session held in Jilin...
World Ranger Day 2013: Message from the CITES Secretary-General, John E. Scanlon
Geneva, Switzerland, 31 July 2013 World Ranger Day 2013 World Ranger Day was first observed in 2007, on the 15th anniversary of the founding of the International Ranger Federation (IRF)...
German Ministries and CITES Secretary-General meet to discuss measures to fight wildlife crime
Efforts to fight poaching and illegal trade in wildlife and international support for global, regional and national initiatives, were the focus of discussions in Bonn on 24 July, 2014 between...
ICCWC deploys a Wildlife Incident Support Team (WIST) to Sri Lanka
In response to the need to take new approaches to combat the illegal trade more effectively, the International Consortium on Combatting Wildlife Crime (ICCWC), at the request of Sri Lanka...
ICCWC launches report of the First Global Meeting of the Wildlife Enforcement Networks and prepares strategy for continued support
The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) convened the world's Wildlife Enforcement Networks for the first time in the margins of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention...
G8 Leaders commit to fight against illegal trafficking in wildlife
The fight against transboundary wildlife crime received a boost at the recently concluded G8 Summit held from 17 to 18 June 2013 at Lough Erne. 1 G8 Leaders recognized the...
CITES addresses WTO Committee on Trade and Environment
The Committee on Trade and Environment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held on 5 June 2013 in Geneva. The CITES Secretariat was invited to speak on the issue...