A TRAFFIC survey of seventy-two online platforms found a staggering 1,267 CITES listed species for sale in Central African countries and Nigeria between March 2018 and January 2021. In delivering these findings to the governments of the countries involved, TRAFFIC seeks to bolster national legislation to regulate these online sales …
Using trade as a weapon has always resulted in giving the big, the strong and the rich, a whip which can be used to brutalise the small, the weak and the poor. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is just one more such weapon in the hands …
The Indian Star Tortoise (Gekoche) lone elegans) is being sold openly India and international trade in the endangered species is thriving. Listed in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, Appendix II, and in the Indian Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, the small tortoise, measuring about 35 cm in …
Zimbabwe's proposal for reopening ivory trade is one of the hot issues at this year's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting this month. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries of Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana have united in their proposal to restart the trade in ivory. Although …
amidst preparations for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (cites) conference in Zimbabwe this June, the host country has been alleged to have allowed proliferation of commercial trade in ivory in violation of its own policy and the international ban on such trade. A Switzerland-based cites report released …
THE international community has been asked to help Zimbabwe fund the translocation of elephants and buffaloes from its major national game park -- Hawange -- more than 600 km southwest of the capital Harare, to areas where they could be saved from starvation. Zimbabwe's national parks, home for most of …
ORISSA'S Chilika lake is known for its natural splendour and beauty and the wealth of bird and marine life which it harbours. Recently, it has acquired additional prominence owing to the controversial prawn culture project initiated by big business houses, which the local marginal fishermen -- supported by the environmentalist …
YOU might as well declare it open season for the anachronistic remnants of royal gamehunters and lowly poachers. Conventional laws against the illegal trade in wildlife are so porous that they left officials from the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) grousing about their Indian counterparts. A frantic …
ENVIRONMENTALISTS opposing the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) decision permitting South Africa to trade in live white rhinos did not have to wait long to see their worst fears come true. Hardly a month after the proposal was passed at the November 1994 CITES convention held in …
CONSERVATION authorities from 126 nations are sorting out differences over which endangered flora and fauna need protection, and the modus operandi at the ninth meeting of the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (cites), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The conference, attended by officials, representatives of conservation organisations and traders, …
