CITES
21 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
20 December 2012: The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) announced that Maldives has become the 177th Party to CITES.
Maldives are home to over 300 CITES species, including the whale shark, dugong, giant humphead wrasse, black seahorse, hawksbill turtle, Eurasian spoonbill, duck hawk and Indian flying-fox. CITES trade with Maldives consists mainly of raw corals.
The Convention will enter into force for Maldives on 12 March...
02 Apr 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
30 March 2012: For the first time in several years, the scientific committees of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) met in tandem.
The 26th meeting of the CITES Animals Committee (AC 26) convened from 15-20 March 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland. This meeting was followed by the Joint Meeting of the AC and Plants Committee (PC), which took place in Dublin, Ireland, from 22-24 March 2012. Finally, the 20th meeting of the Plants Committee (PC...
22 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 March 2012: The 26th meeting of the Animals Committee (AC 26) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) moved from Geneva, Switzerland, to continue its work in Dublin, Ireland, where the Committee will convene together with the CITES Plants Committee (PC).
AC 26, which convened from 15-20 March 2012, consisted of meetings of the AC and its working groups. Participants discussed, inter alia, periodic review of animal species included in...
22 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 March 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) hosted a meeting on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to discuss possible collaboration with CITES to develop model management plans for corals, dolphins and other marine life in the Pacific.
The meeting, which took place in Nadi, Fiji, on 5-7 March 2012, brought together representatives from 16 Pacific island countries to build their capacity in...
13 Feb 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
9 February 2012: Tara Oceans, a mission carried out under the auspices of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) in partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has arrived in New York, US, to raise awareness of the impacts of climate change on oceans. The scientific expedition has been travelling the world’s oceans for almost three years,...
