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ITTO and CITES launch first report on timber tracking technologies
The CITES Secretariat and International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) have launched a report entitled Tracking sustainability: review of electronic and semi-electronic timber tracking technologies. This report has been produced within...
CITES Secretariat presents recommendations on proposals to amend the CITES Appendices
The upcoming sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (Bangkok, Thailand, 3-14 March 2013) will be considering 70 proposals to increase or decrease controls on international trade...
Recent trade of elephants from Zimbabwe to China
Public statement of the CITES Secretariat The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has received copies of various news articles...
Recent trade of elephants from Zimbabwe to China
Public statement of the CITES Secretariat The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has received copies of various news articles...
Launching the official logo for the 40th anniversary of CITES
In forty days time we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). CITES was signed on 3...
Tanzania withdraws its proposal to downlist African elephant
For the purpose of fulfilling the requirements of Resolution Conf. 10.9 , the CITES Secretariat has been in close communication with the United Republic of Tanzania on the proposal which...
CITES welcomes United Nations Security Council call to investigate links between elephant poaching, ivory smuggling and illicit financing of the LRA
For use of the media only; not an official document. The CITES Secretariat ready to support joint investigation Geneva, 24 December 2012 – The Secretary-General of the Convention on International...
The 177th Party: Maldives
The CITES Secretariat is pleased to welcome the Republic of Maldives as the 177th Party to CITES. Maldives is an island country in the Indian Ocean. The islands of Maldives...
CITES Secretary-General welcomes adoption of a draft resolution for the United Nations General Assembly urging countries to take action against illegal wildlife trade
On 26 November 2012, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted the draft resolution on “Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular...
CBOL receives $3 million grant from Google Foundation to barcode endangered species
Border inspectors and wildlife officials around the world are constantly on the lookout for endangered species that are being killed and trafficked in violation of national laws and international treaties...