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#277856th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Standing Committee
15 June 2007, The Hague, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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#325258th Meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Standing Committee
6 - 10 July 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
News Headlines
#1238172020-01-20
6 million hectares of threatened species habitat up in smoke
More than one billion mammals, birds, and reptiles across eastern Australia are estimated to have been affected by the current fire catastrophe.
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#477061st Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee
15 - 19 August 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
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#568169th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee.
27 November - 1 December 2017, Geneva, Switzerland
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#582670th meeting of the Standing Committee
1 - 5 October 2018, Sochi, Russian Federation
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#6066Meeting
#631877th meeting of the Standing Committee (CITES)
6 - 10 November 2023, Geneva, Switzerland
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#58748th International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Conference 2019
17 - 20 June 2019, Trondhein, Norway
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#20838th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the CMS (COP-8) - Scientific Council and Standing Committee Meeting
16 - 18 November 2005, Nairobi, Kenya
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#58098th Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MoP8) of the Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats
8 - 10 October 2018, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Side Event
#1882COP 10
2010-10-22
A REPORT FROM THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT – 1) BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE, AND; 2) A NEW PARADIGM FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILDLIFE GENETIC DIVERSITY
Presentations addressing the issue of biodiversity will be given from the macro and micro perspectives. 1. Australia currently conserves more than 13 per cent of the country through the protected area network. Threats to reserves, however, go beyond boundaries and influences are often landscap ...
News Headlines
#1257072020-11-16
A Rare Baby Rhino Has Been Born At Chester Zoo And She Looks Like She’s Loving Life Already
What a cutie! Following a long 15-month pregnancy, Ema Elsa – a black rhino at Chester Zoo – has welcomed a rare baby rhino, and she looks like she’s loving life already. Joining less than 1,000 other eastern black rhinos that live on our planet, the new arrival will live at Chester Zoo with her ...
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#1236282020-01-09
A Season in Hell: Bushfires Push at Least 20 Threatened Species Closer to Extinction
Images of desperate, singed koalas in blackened landscapes have come to symbolise the damage to nature this bushfire season. Such imagery has catalysed global concern, but the toll on biodiversity is much more pervasive.
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#1231462019-11-27
A Third of Tropical Africa’s Plants At Risk of Extinction
One-third of — or more 7,000 — plant species in tropical Africa could be at risk of extinction due to climate change and human activities like logging, deforestation from agriculture, and mining, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.
News Headlines
#1354502022-07-26
A few jaguars now roam the Arizona borderlands—why that’s a big deal
When biologist Ganesh Marin first observed a jaguar on a preserve in northern Sonora, Mexico, in 2020, he was elated. The feline continued showing up on Marin’s grid of camera traps along the Arizona border, which indicated he was making the region his home. Marin nicknamed the jaguar El Bonito, ...
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#1288032021-05-25
A huge surprise’ as giant river otter feared extinct in Argentina pops up
“It was a huge surprise,” said Sebastián Di Martino, director of conservation at Fundación Rewilding Argentina. “I was incredulous. An incredible feeling of so much happiness. I didn’t know if I should try to follow it or rush back to our station to tell the others.”
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#1324702022-01-13
A large flock of critically endangered birds arrive in Cambodia in yearly migration
A large flock of critically endangered migratory birds, the yellow-breasted bunting, have arrived at the Boeung Prek Lapouv Protected Landscape in southern Cambodia’s Takeo province during their yearly migration, a conservationist organization said on Wednesday.
News Headlines
#1260262020-12-07
A rope bridge is helping conserve China’s rarest primate species
A critically-endangered gibbon species in China has been thrown a lifeline – literally – with the creation of a simple rope bridge across a 15-metre gap in the forest.
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#1320002021-11-30
A star in subtropical Japan: a new species of parasitoid wasp constructs unique cocoon masses hanging on 1-meter-long strings
A unique "star" was discovered from the Ryukyu Islands, a biodiversity hot spot in subtropical Japan: a star-shaped structure that turned out to be the cocoon mass of a new species of parasitoid wasp.
News Headlines
#1245462020-03-05
A study has called into question the effectiveness of measures to clamp down on the illegal wildlife trade.
Glow-worm numbers have plunged by three-quarters since 2001, research in England has revealed, with the climate crisis a clear factor.
News Headlines
#1352592022-07-06
A three-legged tortoise fitted with rollers could help save his endangered species
A three-legged tortoise rescued from smugglers has found a new lease of life at Chester Zoo, where he could help save his endangered species.
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#2503ACAP 2nd Meeting of the Advisory Committee
5 - 8 June 2006, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
News Headlines
#1319622021-11-26
About 620 Million Birds Have Quietly Vanished in Europe for the Last 40 Years
Recent study has discovered one in every six birds has quietly gone across Europe since the 1980s. The causes varied and numerous, including habitat loss, massive decline in insect species, pollution, and disease all of the usual suspects contributing the larger mass extinction event we're exper ...
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#1222462019-09-16
About the age of extinction – a Guardian series
This project focuses on biodiversity: the variety of all life on our planet. It highlights the crisis represented by huge losses of animal, insect, bird and plant life around the world, as well as innovations to tackle these losses.
News Headlines
#1281722021-04-22
Achievements seen in wildlife protection
Cameras placed for wildlife surveillance in both Southwest and Northeast China have recently captured rare activities of Asian elephants and Siberian tigers, both of which are endangered species under State protection.
News Headlines
#1187212018-10-30
Action needed to restore biodiversity
The way we feed, fuel and finance our societies and economies is pushing nature, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s latest Living Planet Report.
News Headlines
#1202362019-03-06
Africa: Act Fast to Halt the Declining Insect Numbers
Researchers, policymakers and donors should act fast to halt the diminishing insect numbers, writes Wei Zhang. Insects are among the most diverse and successful organisms on our planet, and their significant contributions to vital ecological functions including pollination, pest control and main ...
News Headlines
#1337372022-03-07
Africa: Biodiversity - Elephants of Africa
The African savanna elephant is the world's largest land animal. Adult elephants weigh up to 7,500 kilograms and stand almost four meters tall at the shoulder.
News Headlines
#1188092018-11-06
Africa: How We Arrived At a $1 Billion Annual Price Tag to Save Africa's Lions
A billion dollars. That's approximately what it would cost, to save the African lion. That's a billion dollars each year, every year into the foreseeable future.
News Headlines
#1352582022-07-06
African Wild Dogs Lose Pups to Climate Adaptation ‘Trap
The endangered wild dog has shifted its breeding season by 22 days, resulting in fewer pups living through their first year
News Headlines
#1247952020-03-20
African black rhino numbers rise as efforts from conservationists pay off
The number of Africa's critically endangered black rhinos has risen by nearly 800 over a six-year period, according to a new report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
News Headlines
#1278302021-03-29
African elephants listed as critically endangered amid rise in ivory demand
Following population declines over several decades due to poaching for ivory and loss of habitat, the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is now listed as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened.
News Headlines
#1241462020-02-13
After the 'firestorm', hopes rise for mountain pygmy-possum's revival
As Michael Saxon and other staff prepared to inspect the vast burnt tracts of the Kosciuszko National Park for remaining wildlife, they were bracing for the worst. "We were stunned by the intensity of the fire. It looked like firestorm had whipped through it," Mr Saxon said. "We were very pessim ...
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#1331832022-02-14
Alarming number of European vascular plants are threatened
The risks of extinction for specific plants and animals are generally collated in regional, national, and global threat assessments, known as “Red Lists.” These lists help legislators and conservation organizations make decisions about which species need the most urgent protection in order to av ...
Side Event
#1931COP 10
2010-10-26
Alliance for Zero Extinction
The Alliance for Zero Extinction helps countries achieve their CBD targets while halting the loss of species most at risk of extinction.
Recommendation
SBSTTA 1#6985
Recommendation I/3
Alternative ways and means in which the Conference of the Parties could start the process of considering the components of biological diversity particularly those under threat and the identification of action which could be taken under the Convention
News Headlines
#1342612022-05-04
America is exterminating its wolves. When will this stop?
Will Americans ever stop killing wolves? We stopped commercially hunting whales, and the mass slaughter of bison. We no longer clearcut old-growth redwoods, or use explosives on prairie dog towns, or build massive dams on wild salmon rivers.
News Headlines
#1205622019-03-28
Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity
Anthropogenic trade and development have broken down dispersal barriers, facilitating the spread of diseases that threaten Earth’s biodiversity. We present a global, quantitative assessment of the amphibian chytridiomycosis panzootic, one of the most impactful examples of disease spread, and dem ...
News Headlines
#1208692019-04-29
An epic Pacific survey reveals mixed fortunes for green and hawksbill turtles
First the good news: A sweeping survey of the Pacific Basin has found the population of endangered green turtles (Chelonia mydas) there is increasing. However, the hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), the other target species of the survey, is still very much critically endangered.
News Headlines
#1266142021-01-14
And then there were two: can northern white rhinos be saved from extinction?
I watch these beautiful animals walk the path toward extinction every day,” keeper James Mwenda tells me. He’s out in the Kenyan bush, swatting flies. The anti-poaching K-9 dogs bark in the background.
News Headlines
#1271552021-02-17
Aquariums hatch unusual plan to save endangered zebra shark
A leopard can’t change its spots, and a zebra can’t change its stripes. But the zebra shark has long delighted ocean divers and aquarium visitors with its ability to transform the white bands it is born with into spots as it grows. Now, the endangered shark is grabbing attention for another reas ...
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#1328172022-01-31
Are Facebook, Snapchat and Tiktok the ‘new eBay’ for endangered wildlife?
You may have come across a petition circling online recently, calling for the end of illegal wildlife sales on social media. It's been shared by celebrities all over the world, earning more than half a million signatures in the process.
News Headlines
#1239112020-01-23
As Australia burns, the smallest species could be lost forever to the flames
When Tanya Latty, an entomologist at the University of Sydney, started studying a species of velvet worm 18 months ago, she thought it was just a side project.
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#1187732018-11-01
As Insect Populations Decline, Scientists Are Trying to Understand Why
When Susan Weller traveled to Ecuador to study tiger moths in the 1980s, she found plenty of insects. A decade later, Weller, now director of the University of Nebraska State Museum, returned to conduct follow-up research. But the moths she was looking for were gone.
News Headlines
#1242442020-02-19
As Planet Burns, One Million Species in World’s Eco-System in Danger of Extinction
When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed the 193-member General Assembly last December, he focused on the smoldering climate crisis– pointing out that the last five years have been the hottest ever recorded.
News Headlines
#1209812019-05-08
As U.N. warns of widespread extinction, California is already losing species
A new United Nations report warning of a global extinction crisis identifies three parts of the world in particular danger: South America, Africa and parts of Asia.
News Headlines
#1278932021-04-05
At least 22 leopards poached in Odisha in a year, say forest officials
The Odisha Forest Department and the Special Task Force (STF) of the state police have seized as many as 20 leopard skins in one year from 10 districts. This indicates how rampantly big cats are poached in the state.
News Headlines
#1319342021-11-25
Atlantic fishing nations agree to ban catches of mako, world’s fastest sharks
Conservationists hail move as ‘critical breakthrough’ to protect endangered shortfin mako, prized for meat, fins and sportfishing.
News Headlines
#1197002019-01-31
Aussie plants facing extinction
The top 100 Australian plant species at risk of extinction have been identified by Threatened Species Recovery Hub research.University of Queensland researcher Dr. Jennifer Silcock said three quarters of Australia's threatened species were plants.