{"id":86911,"date":"2019-08-09T17:51:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9013"},"modified":"2019-08-09T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:21:31","slug":"india-to-seek-boost-to-protection-status-of-5-species-at-cites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-seek-boost-to-protection-status-of-5-species-at-cites\/","title":{"rendered":"India to seek boost to protection status of 5 species at CITES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India has submitted proposals regarding changes\nto the listing of various wildlife species in the CITES secretarial meeting.\nThe meeting is scheduled to be held in late 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/li><li>India has submitted a proposal to re-list the\nstar tortoise from CITES Appendix II to Appendix I. It is listed as Vulnerable\nin the IUCN Red List. The species faces two threats: loss of habitat to\nagriculture and illegal harvesting for the pet trade.<\/li><li>India along with Nepal and Philippines has also\nproposed to relist smooth-coated otter, small-clawed otter CITES Appendix II to\nAppendix I. A similar proposal has been made to include the Tokay gecko in\nAppendix I.<\/li><li>With regards to rosewood, India has proposed to\nremove it from Appendix II<\/li><li>CITES (the Convention on International Trade in\nEndangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement\nbetween governments. It aims to ensure that international trade in specimens of\nwild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.<\/li><li>Appendix I includes species threatened with\nextinction. Trade in specimens of these species is permitted only in\nexceptional circumstances.<\/li><li>Appendix II includes species not necessarily\nthreatened with extinction, but in which trade must be controlled in order to\navoid utilization incompatible with their survival.<\/li><li>Appendix III contains species that are protected\nin at least one country, which has asked other CITES Parties for assistance in\ncontrolling the trade.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has submitted proposals regarding changes to the listing of various wildlife species in the CITES secretarial meeting. The meeting is scheduled to be held in late 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland. India has submitted a proposal to re-list the star tortoise from CITES Appendix II to Appendix I. It is listed as Vulnerable in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-seek-boost-to-protection-status-of-5-species-at-cites\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India to seek boost to protection status of 5 species at CITES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4602],"class_list":["post-86911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cites","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704729888},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}