Because the growing exotic pet trade has put enormous pressure on many species of turtle, lizard and gecko, CITES added a range of these species to the Appendices.
The Parties established the CITES Big Cat Task Force with a mandate to improve enforcement, tackle illegal trade and promote collaboration on conserving tigers, lions, cheetahs, jaguars and leopards.
The new wildlife trade rules to be considered at the 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of
CITES (CoP18), cover an array of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, trees and other plants.
CITES regulates international trade in more than 35,000 species of plants and animals, including their products and derivatives, to ensure their survival in the wild with benefits for the livelihoods of local people and the environment.
Aa"CITES wasn't initially designed to manage commercial marine species ," says Simon Stuart, chair of IUCN's Species Survival Commission.
If they don't, we can be sure that marine species will be back on the agenda at the next CITES meeting."
ITAP activities have included training enforcement personnel in inspection of wildlife shipments and related enforcement techniques, legal and regulatory workshops for government officials, field studies to monitor the status of traded species, assistance in preparation for CITES meetings, improving the operations of wildlife rescue centers, and evaluating the adequacy of existing regulations and laws.
In addition to the general requirement to effectively implement CITES, the PTPA contains an Annex on Forest Sector Governance that includes measures related to timber species listed under CITES as well as broader forest management and timber extraction issues in Peru.
this information gap, CITES parties export species without undertaking
sustainable levels for species listed in Appendix II of CITES, such as
The United States, which is a party to
CITES, suspended imports of beluga sturgeon caviar from the Caspian and Black Sea basins in September and October 2005.
The American alligator and paddlefish illustrate the states' role in
CITES (see articles in this issue).
I also define a "top article" (the average number of
cites is above the median, mean, 90'h percentile, or 95'h percentile for a set of leading finance journals) as opposed to an "article in a top journal." The results show that using the top three (JF, JFE, RFS) approach to identify top articles (based on the mean number of
cites per article) leads to an RTA error 44% of the time and an ANTA error 33% of the time.
The major findings of the study reflect that the proposed calculated
Cite Score of the Dialogue for the mentioned period is 0.14 whereas the proposed self-calculated Impact Factor is 0.22.
Occasionally articles from peer-reviewed journals are reprinted as chapters of edited books, and authors sometimes
cite the book chapter instead of the original journal article.