{"id":156813,"date":"2021-12-28T21:37:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T16:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=156813"},"modified":"2021-12-28T21:37:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T16:07:25","slug":"convention-on-international-trade-in-endangered-speciescites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/convention-on-international-trade-in-endangered-speciescites\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species(CITES)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About CITES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an international <strong>agreement between governments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CITES <strong>regulates international trade in specimens of species<\/strong> of wild <strong>fauna and flora<\/strong> based on a <strong>system of permits and certificates<\/strong> issued under certain conditions.\n<ul>\n<li>It covers export, re-export, import and landing from the high seas of <strong>live and dead<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>animals and plants<\/strong> and their parts <strong>and derivatives.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>CITES has now<strong> 183 Parties. <\/strong>Not all members of the United Nations are Parties to the Convention.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>CITES Secretariat <\/strong>is hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (<strong>UNEP<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Origin:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was drafted as a result of a <strong>resolution<\/strong> adopted <strong>in 1963 at a meeting of<\/strong> members of <strong>IUCN<\/strong> (The World Conservation Union).<\/li>\n<li>The text of the Convention was finally agreed at a meeting of representatives of 80 countries in Washington, D.C, on 3 March 1973, and on 1 July <strong>1975 CITES entered in force.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Legality:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>legally binding on the Parties<\/strong> \u2013 in other words they have to implement the Convention.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>does not take the place of national laws<\/strong>. Rather it provides a framework to be adopted by parties in its own domestic legislation to ensure that CITES is implemented at the national level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How CITES works:<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156815\" style=\"width: 511px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156815\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cites-1.png?resize=511%2C524&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cites-1.png?w=511&amp;ssl=1 511w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cites-1.png?resize=293%2C300&amp;ssl=1 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source-CITES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It works by subjecting international trade in specimens of selected species to <strong>certain controls<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>All <strong>import, export, re-export and introduction<\/strong> from the sea of species covered by the Convention has to be authorized <strong>through a licensing system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Each Party<\/strong> to the Convention <strong>must designate:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>one or more <strong>Management Authorities<\/strong> in charge of administering that licensing system and;<\/li>\n<li>one or more <strong>Scientific Authorities<\/strong> to advise them on the effects of trade on the status of the species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The species covered by CITES are listed in three Appendices<\/strong>, according to the degree of protection they need.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156814\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156814\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cites.png?resize=549%2C549&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cites.png?w=549&amp;ssl=1 549w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cites.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cites.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source-CITES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Changes to Appendix III<\/strong> follow a <strong>distinct procedure<\/strong> from changes to Appendices I and II, as each Party\u2019s is entitled to make unilateral amendments to it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Funding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Convention is financed by<strong> core and external funds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<strong> core funding<\/strong>, known as the<strong> CITES Trust Fund (CTL)<\/strong>, finances the administrative costs of the Secretariat, the Conference of the Parties and its subsidiary bodies, the Standing Committee and other permanent committees.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The CITES Trust Fund is <strong>replenished from contributions of the Parties to the Convention<\/strong> based on the UN scale of assessment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The external funds<\/strong>, known as the <strong>CITES External Trust Fund (QTL) <\/strong>funds the voluntary programmes\/projects activities costs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The CITES External Trust Fund consists of extra budgetary contributions from Parties and other entities on a <strong>purely voluntary basis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Each offer of funding to the CITES External Trust Fund is negotiated and vetted by the Secretariat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About CITES: It is an international agreement between governments. CITES regulates international trade in specimens of species of wild fauna and flora based on a system of permits and certificates issued under certain conditions. It covers export, re-export, import and landing from the high seas of live and dead animals and plants and their parts&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/convention-on-international-trade-in-endangered-speciescites\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species(CITES)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10335,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-156813","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}