CITES calls for urgent action to maintain pressure on illegal ivory and rhino horn trade
Monday, January 18, 2016 - 06:45
in Biology & Nature
With thousands of elephants and rhinos poached each year, the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) concluded its 66th meeting in Geneva today by demanding urgent action from some key countries to help stem the illegal rhino horn and ivory trade – and urging trade sanctions against three states implicated in this trade.