Thanks to one resolution, the Philippines and Brazil now will be able to export farm-raised crocodiles, after a total trade ban was lifted during the two-week meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Panama. READ:
Thanks to one resolution, the Philippines and Brazil now will be able to export farm-raised crocodiles, after a total trade ban was lifted during the two-week meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Panama.
In the Philippines, a trade restriction was lifted on the saltwater crocodile that lives mainly on the islands of Mindanao and Palawan.In other developments:No longer just the villains of the deep, these ancient predators were the stars of the summit. Only Japan grumbled over the resolution, arguing restrictions on the trade of the blue shark would be a blow to the livelihoods of its fishermen.See-through glass frogs
CITES also placed more than 160 species of glass frog, found in several rainforests in Central and South America, on its Appendix II, which places trade restrictions on threatened species. Zimbabwe and its southern African neighbors have seen their elephant populations soar in recent years, and pushed a drive to re-open the ivory trade which has been banned since 1989.However, in the rest of the continent poaching for ivory is still decimating elephant populations and the request was rejected.
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