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CITES meeting to consider illegal trade in ivory, timber, rhino horn and tiger farms
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Friday, July 11, 2008 |
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The 57th meeting of the Standing Committee of the CITES to be held in Geneva this week (from 14 to 18 July). The meeting will consider the quantities of raw ivory stockpiled in four Southern African countries approved for export; discuss the farming of tigers in Asia; the poaching of rhinos for use in traditional medicine; the legal origin of mahogany harvested in the Amazon basin and the levels of trade of African cherry (Prunus africana) used in the treatment of prostate cancer, said a press release from CITES |
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Press Release: If you want to save the tiger, allow people to sell it
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Monday, June 11, 2007 |
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The Sustainable Development Network (SDN), a coalition of people-oriented conservation groups, today called upon delegates to the CITES meeting, June 3-15, 2007, in The Hague to reconsider the ban on sale of tiger parts, which it says is undermining effective conservation by reducing the incentives to manage tigers sustainably and increasing the number of wild tigers that are poached. The SDN argues that trade in certified farmed tiger parts could meet existing and future demand, thereby reducing pressure on wild tigers. |
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