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October 16, 2009
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
- Tags:
- biogems, Canada, CITES, polarbears, trade, trophyhunting
Big, big news out of Washington, D.C. today on the topic of polar bear conservation. The United States, responding to NRDC, our allies, and more than 50,000 NRDC members, announced that it would propose placing the polar bear on Appendix...continued→
September 8, 2009
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
- Tags:
- biogems, CITES, commercialtrade, hunting, polarbears, trade, trophyhunting
Arguably, one the most successful international environmental agreements, at least when it comes to wildlife, is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species or “CITES” (pronounced “cy-tees”). CITES is designed to control international commercial trade in endangered species,...continued→
