Wildlife Trade Regulation Needed More Than Ever

21/09/2010

     The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the essential international agreement aiming to protect resources, mentions recently that wildlife is threatened more severely from due to economic activities, this therefore should be controlled to protect species. Moreover, CITES parties will become 176 after this announcement and  every year the 850,000 wildlife will be allowed to trade from 10 million lists,   
     Mr Thomaas Jemmi, Deputy Director General of the Swiss Federal Veterinary Office, the CITES Management Authority of Switzerland claims that Switzerland hopes that the nations will success in decrease of loss of biodiversity.
    The CITES concerns about loss of marine and timber species. Furthermore, The CITES uses the annual information of the parties to estimate the situation of wildlife trade per a nation and per species group in this times, such as "the rank of top 10 trading partner" and "top 5  items".
 
For further information, see Convention on International Trade Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora(CITES)  and  United Nation Environment Programe