CITES Calendar
| Title | Venue & Date | Details |
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| Bay of Bengal Capacity Building Workshop on CITES Appendix II Listings of Shark and Manta Ray Species, Chennai, India, 26-28 August 2014 | Chennai, India 26 - 28 August 2014 |
Meeting summary
Government representatives from CITES and fisheries authorities from all of the Bay of Bengal region (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand) , which constitutes a significant shark-fishing region, engaged in active discussions at the meeting. The representatives from a number of coastal states of India were also present to learn about the CITES measures in place and to discuss their challenges and needs in implementing the new CITES listings at the subnational level. The workshop was opened by Mr. M. L. Srivastava, IFS, Deputy Inspector-General of Forests, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (CITES Management Authority of India); Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, Chairman, CPREEC; Mr. N. G. Jayasimha, Managing Director, Humane Society International; and John E. Scanlon, CITES Secretary General (see CITES Secretary-General’s remarks). Representatives from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP), Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Project (BOBLME), and the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) Secretariat were also present to define better their roles in the region. Delegates used the outcomes of two recent meetings in the region (FAO/CITES Regional consultative workshop on sharks for Asia, Xiamen, China; and Pew Charitable Trusts South Asia Workshop, Colombo, Sri Lanka) to develop a regional plan and agree on the roles and responsibilities of national and regional stakeholders on the different elements of CITES implementation, including coordination and communication; capacity-building, data collection and NDFs, and so on. A parallel poster session was held to review the status of sharks and the legal, administrative and management regimes for shark fisheries within their waters, which generated much interest and productive discussions on sharing information and know-how in the corridors.
Participants to the workshop See also:
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| Pew Charitable Trusts Panama in-country workshop on implementing the CITES Shark Appendix II Listings | Panama City, Panama 21 August 2014 |
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| Workshop to Review CITES Shark NDF Guidance, Bonn, Germany | Bonn, Germany 20 - 21 August 2014 |
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| NOAA / Species Survival Network Regional workshop on the implementation of the CITES shark and ray listings, Dakar, Senegal | Dakar, Senegal 12 - 14 August 2014 |
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| 10th Regular Session of the Science Committee of the Western & Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) | Marshall Islands 06 - 14 August 2014 |
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| Pew Charitable Trusts South Asia Workshop: Implementing the CITES Shark Appendix II Listings | Colombo, Sri Lanka 30 - 31 July 2014 |
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| 87th meeting of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) | Lima, Peru 14 - 18 July 2014 |
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| Pew Charitable Trusts Peru in-country workshop on implementing the CITES Shark Appendix II Listings | Lima, Peru 11 July 2014 |
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| Sharks Side event of the 65th meeting of CITES Standing Committee (SC65) | SC65 (CICG Room 13), Geneva, Switzerland 07 July 2014 |
CITES-FAO presentations from the Sharks side event at SC65: - CITES-FAO collaboration on sharks and rays: main themes |
| 65th meeting of the Standing Committee | Geneva, Switzerland 07 - 11 July 2014 |
SC65 documents: - Agenda and documents |
Geneva, 3 September 2014: The Bay of Bengal Capacity Building Workshop on CITES Appendix II Listings of Shark and Manta Ray Species was held in Chennai, India from 26 to 28 August 2014. The workshop was hosted by the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (CITES Management of Authority of India), in cooperation with the C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre, Chennai, and Humane Society International. 