September 23, 2016 Mike Gaworecki The European Union and Senegal have put forward a resolution at CoP17 proposing measures to tackle corruption in wildlife trafficking. Late last year, Yury Fedotov, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, joined with John Scanlon, secretary-general of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ofContinue reading “Calls for CITES to address the corruption fueling the illegal wildlife trade”
Monthly Archives: September 2016
The CITES Secretariat and the epitome of double standards
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) will shortly hold its seventeenth major Conference of the Parties event in Johannesburg from 24 September to 5 October 2016 (CoP17). As part of the agenda for CoP17 the CITES Secretariat has published an agenda and numerous documents for consideration againstContinue reading “The CITES Secretariat and the epitome of double standards”
The world of Karl Ammann 