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World Wildlife Conference opens in Panama
World Wildlife Conference opens in Panama Dateline: Panama City, Panama, November 13 Representatives of more than 160 governments will begin meeting tomorrow, in Panama, to make decisions which will affect...
Nearly there... CITES CoP19 just hours away
The final preparations are under way in Panama City for the 19th World Wildlife Conference - CITES CoP 19. With just 36 hours to go before the meeting starts, the...
International Consortium hosts high profile events on Combating Wildlife Crime at CITES CoP19
Next week marks the beginning of the 19th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CoP19)...
Wood you know the difference? CITES timber identification repository goes live!
Timber is one of the most traded commodities that CITES regulates. Thousands of shipments are on the move at any one time and if any of those shipments is of...
CITES Secretary-General, Ivonne Higuero message for Ramsar CoP14
CITES Secretary-General, Ivonne Higuero's message to the Ramsar Wetlands Convention's CoP14 More than a third of the world’s wetlands have been lost since 1970 and the rate has been accelerating...
Secretary-General's speech to WTO’s 3rd Trade and Environment Week
High-Level Panel on Multilateral Trade and Environment Cooperation: Answering Crisis and Furthering Resilience Remarks of CITES Secretary-General, Ms Ivonne Higuero Geneva, 17 October 2022 It is my pleasure to be...
Final Recommendations on the 52 Proposals to CITES CoP19
It’s exactly one month until the opening of the 19th World Wildlife Conference and the CITES Secretariat has published its final recommendations on the 52 proposals that will be presented...
A Celebration of the CITES Tree Species Project
As the CITES Tree Species Programme draws to a close, there is hope for a better future for some of the world’s threatened tree species and a recognition that local...
Oceania and Central South America & the Caribbean gear up for CoP19
With a month to the World Wildlife Conference, the Parties to CITES are fine-tuning their priorities ahead of the 19th meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Over the past...
CITES Secretariat publishes provisional assessment of 52 proposals to CoP19
CITES Secretariat has today published its provisional assessment of the 52 proposals that will be considered at CoP19 in November. This assessment – and the recommendations that will follow later...
