Secretary-General's statements

Discurso de apertura 'La CITES y el comercio de especies silvestres – ¿cómo funciona la CITES? y ¿cómo se vincula con el turismo de vida silvestre’ John E. Scanlon Secretario General, Secretaría CITES Colombo, Sri Lanka, 25 de enero de 2016   Buenos días y gracias a nuestros colegas de Turismo Sri Lanka por organizar el seminario público del día de hoy y por brindarme la oportunidad de dirigirme a ustedes.

Sexagésimo sexta reunión del Comité Permanente Ginebra (Suiza), 11 de enero de 2016 Discurso de apertura de John E. Scanlon, Secretario General de la CITES Muchas gracias, Sr. Presidente. Al igual que usted también quisiera desear a todos un Feliz Año Nuevo – Bonne Année, Happy New Year – y dar la más calurosa bienvenida a todos los miembros del Comité Permanente, las Partes Observadoras, las organizaciones intergubernamentales y no gubernamentales así como al sector privado y a los medios de comunicación.

  Corruption as an enabler of wildlife and forest crime Joint Statement of Mr Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of UNODC and Mr John Scanlon, Secretary-General of CITES  Saint Petersburg, 3 November 2015 As the world turns to realising the new development agenda with the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, we are concerned that spiralling wildlife and forest crime, fuelled by corrosive corruption, can impede vital progress.

Workshop on illegal trade in cheetahs 3 – 5 November 2015 Kuwait Welcoming remarks by John E. Scanlon, CITES Secretary General   His Excellency Sheikh/ Abdullah Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Sabah - Director of the Environmental Public Authority of the State of Kuwait & Chairman of the Board Distinguished guests, friends and colleagues We are most grateful to the Environmental Public Authority of the State of Kuwait for hosting and financing this week’s workshop on illegal trade in cheetahs.

Corruption is “an insidious plague” that is present in the wildlife sector just as it is in other sectors, indeed in virtually any form of human activity. A clear message of the determination of the international community to work to prevent and combat corruption was sent with the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) of the UN Convention Against Corruption in 2003 and its entry into force in 2005.

This week in New York, the U.N. General Assembly will adopt a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets that represent an unprecedented opportunity to safeguard globally threatened wildlife species. The new goals are part of an agenda called Transforming Our World: The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda – a vision for the planet in which “humanity lives in harmony with nature and in which wildlife and other living species are protected.”

Keynote Address 'CITES and wildlife trade – how CITES works and what it is and isn’t’ John E. Scanlon Secretary-General, CITES Secretariat Tbilisi, 20 October 2015

22nd Meeting of the CITES Plants Committee 19 – 23 October 2015 Tbilisi Welcoming remarks by John E. Scanlon, CITES Secretary General   Mr. Gigla Agulashvili, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Protection of Georgia First Deputy Minister Mr. Teimuraz Murgulia Chair of Plants Committee, Professor Margarita Clemente, and members of the Committee   Distinguished guests, friends and colleagues,