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CITES and confiscated elephant ivory and rhino horn – to destroy or not destroy? - External link to CITES Secretary-General's Op Ed
Over the past 24 months we have seen a number of countries, including Belgium, Chad, China, Hong Kong SAR, China, Czech Republic, Gabon, France, Philippines, and the USA, destroy stockpiles...
CITES Secretary-General's statement on Does biodiversity matter for development? EU's Development Cooperation launches its B4Life Flagship Initiative - Republic of Korea
CBD CoP12 side event Does biodiversity matter for development? EU's Development Cooperation launches its B4Life Flagship Initiative Opening Statement John E Scanlon, Secretary General, CITES (Delivered by Milena Sosa Schmidt)...
CITES Secretary-General's statement to ITTO-CITES: Working together to sustain tropical tree species - Republic of Korea
ITTO-CITES: Working together to sustain tropical tree species Opening Statement John E Scanlon, Secretary General, CITES
Comment la CITES prend des mesures concrètes pour un monde vivant en harmonie avec la nature : Contribution de la CITES à la Décennie des Nations Unies pour la diversité biologique
Alors que nous sommes bientôt à mi-parcours de l’échéance de 2020 pour atteindre l’ensemble commun de nos objectifs et stratégies pour la biodiversité, il est opportun de réfléchir sur la...
How CITES is Taking Concrete Action for a World Living in Harmony with Nature: CITES' Contribution to the UN Decade on Biodiversity - External link to CITES Secretary-General's Op Ed
As we approach the mid-way point to the 2020 deadline to achieve our common set of biodiversity targets and strategies, it is an opportune moment to reflect on how the...
Malagasy President and CITES Secretary-General discuss actions to stem illegal timber trade in the margins of 69th UN General Assembly
For use of the media only; not an official document. PRESS RELEASE Malagasy President and CITES Secretary-General discuss actions to stem illegal timber trade in the margins of 69th UN...
Summary of the High-level Discussion at United Nations Headquarters - Poaching and Illicit Wildlife Trafficking – Towards Joint Action by the International Community, United Nations Headquarters, New York
High-level Discussion: "Poaching and Illicit Wildlife Trafficking – Towards Joint Action by the International Community " A joint event of the Gabonese Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany United...
CITES Secretary-General's remarks at the destruction of confiscated rhino horn in the Czech Republic
The recovery of the CITES-listed African black and white rhino populations in the wild over the past few decades, after being hunted close to extinction, is a great conservation success story – and for the first seven years of this century poaching levels had remained low at around ten a year. After 2007, however, a sharp upward trend in poaching started to emerge – a trend that has continued to the point where over 1,000 rhinos were illegally killed for their horn in South Africa alone in 2013 and over 700 killed so far this year.
ICCWC Senior Experts Group meets in Geneva to review delivery of activities to combat wildlife crime
The Senior Experts Group of the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) met in Geneva last week to discuss progress with its collaborative activities to combat wildlife crime. Opened...