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Summary Of: CITESfor further discussion of the role CITES has played in the fate of particular species... CITES is one of the largest conservation agreements in existence... Although CITES is legally binding on the Parties... must adopt their own domestic legislation to implement CITES at the national level... 30 years of CITES in practice has resulted in several strategies to deal with infractions by Parties... Recommendations to all Parties to suspend CITES related trade with the offending party... CITES works by subjecting international trade in specimens of listed species to certain controls... listed after one member country has asked other CITES Parties for assistance in controlling trade in a species... CITES regulates and monitors trade in the manner of a... in practice this negative list approach effectively forces CITES signatories to expend limited resources on just a select few... in the legal wild bird trade because the CITES process never considered their status... the annual costs of staffing and maintaining a CITES office and an effective presence at the biennial CoP gatherings remain unaffordable for many signatory... the structure of CITES creates a direct conflict of interest between these offices and the resources they manage... the CITES Secretariat itself is largely dependent on signatories... specific enough to prevent CITES violations by means of this Article... CITES would benefit from access to... The CITES Treaty and Compliance...Encyclodia Page On: CITES |
