Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “CITES”
African lions need enhanced protection from habitat loss, poaching and the scourge of ‘Trophy’ and ‘Canned’ lion hunting. Please help! Change.org Petition to UN/UNESCO to establish the African lion as a “World Heritage Species” Petition to UK Government to propose resolutions to CITES (CoP17) to enhance the African lion to CITES Appendix I level protection.
France Bans Lion Trophy Imports, 18 November 2015 The EU’s Stance on Trophy Hunting and Trophy Imports, 30 November 2015 I was saddened to read that the European Union’s (EU’s) Scientific Review Group (SRG) agreed on 15 September that lion trophies can still be brought into Europe from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, …
Call to enhance protection of White and Black rhinoceros, African lions and African elephants IWB Petition to the UK Government Petition open to British Citizens and UK Residents only At 10,000 signatures we get a response from the government. At 100,000 signatures our petition will be considered for a debate in Parliament. ____________________________________________________ Current …
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES), will hold the seventeenth regular meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP17) in South Africa, September 24 to October 5, 2016. IWB is keen for the United Kingdom and United States to take a lead role in …
Petition U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Call to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S. FWS) to fast track African lions and urgently cover them under the Endangered Species Act*. The call could also be made for the U.S. FWS to seek CITES Appendix I listing for the African lion – showing that …
The IWB has written to The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to ask what the United Kingdom will be doing to protect engendered and threatened species, particularly with the forthcoming opportunity to take a stance at the Conference of the Parties …
