Biodiversité

Here, we develop a mechanism using the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species to identify species that are likely to be threatened by international trade. Of 2,211 such species, CITES includes 59% (1,307 species), leaving two-fifths overlooked and in potential need of international trade regulation. Our results can inform deliberations on potential proposals to revise trade measures for species at CITES Conference of the Parties meetings.

Le Comité permanent de la CITES examinera les enjeux les plus urgents, parmi lesquels : le soutien aux Parties afin qu’elles se conforment effectivement à la Convention, à travers ses outils, afin d’éviter la surexploitation des espèces sauvages ; les moyens de suivre et gérer les spécimens issus de la biotechnologie ; une meilleure concertation des actions contre le commerce illégal d’espèces en voie d’extinction ; le point sur les travaux accomplis pour réduire la demande mondiale de produits d’animaux et plantes commercialisés de manière illégale ; et les possibilités de mieux faire appliquer la Convention.

Gland, Switzerland, 5 October 2015 (IUCN) – Thirty-one percent of cactus species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive, global assessment of the species group by IUCN and partners, published today in the journal Nature Plants. This places cacti among the most threatened taxonomic groups assessed on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ - more threatened than mammals and birds.

Between 2011-2020, approximately 3.5 million CITES shipments were reported in direct trade by exporters. This amounted to over 1.3 billion individual organisms (1.26 billion plants and 82 million animals) and an additional 279 million kg of products reported by weight (193 million kg of plants and 86 million kg of animals).

On Saturday, 22 July 2017, IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, covered the 29th Meeting of the Animals Committee, Joint Meeting of the Animals and Plants Committees, and 23rd Meeting of the Plants Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), from 18 to 27 July 2017, from Geneva, Switzerland