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07 Dec 2020: CITES Secretary-General Ivonne Higuero's opening remarks for the CITES-WCO virtual workshop on modern customs procedures
23 Nov 2020: World Wildlife Day Film Showcase to explore humanity’s essential relationship with forests
23 Nov 2020: Secretary-General I. Higuero's remarks at UNECE's 3rd Multi-Stakeholder Policy Dialogue
23 Nov 2020: "Forests and livelihoods: sustaining people and planet" announced as theme of World Wildlife Day 2021
23 Nov 2020: The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime: Celebrating 10 years of supporting countries to combat wildlife crime
17 Nov 2020: CITES Secretary-General Ivonne Higuero's opening remarks for the launch of the Revised Principles and Criteria of the BioTrade Initiative
16 Nov 2020: CITES MIKE Programme reports continued downward trends in elephant poaching in parts of Africa
11 Nov 2020: FAO publishes new sourcebook to facilitate the implementation of CITES for marine species and fisheries
09 Nov 2020: Wildlife and forestry crime: Worldwide seizures in global WCO-INTERPOL operation (external link)
30 Oct 2020: IPBES publishes workshop report on biodiversity and pandemics
30 Oct 2020: New ICCWC page: learn more about the services, tools and support available through ICCWC and impacts and successes of its work in the fight against wildlife crime
28 Oct 2020: CITES Secretariat welcomes UNTOC resolution on combatting crimes that affect the environment
23 Oct 2020: CITES Secretariat joins CPF’s global call for forest solutions to be placed at the heart of COVID-19 recovery strategies
16 Oct 2020: CITES Secretariat welcomes CPW statement urging a science-based approach to wildlife management in the context of COVID-19
15 Oct 2020: CITES and WAZA: the role of zoos and aquariums in keeping wildlife trade legal and sustainable, a keynote presentation by CITES S-G Ivonne Higuero
15 Oct 2020: TRAFFIC launches Elephant Trade Information System Online
28 Aug 2020: CoP18 listing of valuable Teatfish and Cedrela species in CITES Appendix II enters into force
27 Aug 2020: Online meeting on CITES national legislation for selected CITES Parties in West Asia, organized by United Nations Environment Programme and the CITES Secretariat
11 Aug 2020: CITES, WWF and TRAFFIC release new guide to identify smuggled ivory
16 Jul 2020: Announcement on the 73rd meeting of the CITES Standing Committee