The Birds and the Bees Missing at CITES CoP 19 in Panama
By Stephen Palos (SUCo-SA Vice-Chair) As the all-pervasive influence of BINGOs (Big International NGOs) continues to infiltrate the CITES structures
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CITES CoP 19
When a Plan Comes Together SUCo-SA at CITES 19th Conference of the Parties, Panama City, November 2022
By Stephen Palos (SUCo-SA Vice-Chair) To contemplate all that has been accomplished since the formal creation of the Sustainable Use
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What’s Wrong With UN CITES?
Emmanuel Koro Takes A Look A US-based cultural organisation has started asking some tough questions about what’s wrong with CITES
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Inside the Vote-Rigging Scandal that CITES says it’s Unaware of
By Emmanuel Koro, Johannesburg-based international award-winning environmental journalist and author who writes independently on environmental and developmental issues in
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SADC’s Final Words to CITES at the Closing Plenary
SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY Closing remarks by the Secretary General of SADC, Prof Augustin Amuri of the DRC Madam Chair,
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Great Result for White Rhino Conservation In Southern Africa
21 November 2022, Panama City – Namibia and Botswana tabled a proposal (CoP19 Prop. 2) for consideration of proposals for
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CITES Must End its Neo-Colonialism
by Eugène Lapointe, president of the IWMC World Conservation Trust, and Secretary-General of CITES from 1982 to 1990 Panama City,
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CITES CoP19 – Unanswered Questions
Article by: African Wildlife Pen A plethora of serious African Conservation questions remain unanswered despite the fact that member states
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International Trade in Live African Elephant Specimens: Proposed Revision of Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. Cop18)
CoP19 Doc. 66.4.1 International Trade In Live African Elephant Specimens: Proposed Revision Of Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. Cop18) Thank you,
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SANBI Scientific Report Counters Cites Proposal To Declare Hippo “At Threat Of Extinction.”
HIPPOS NOT MOVED TO CITES APPENDIX I AS REQUESTED BY WEST-AFRICAN COUNTRIES 17 November 2022, Panama City – A proposal
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