Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Draft Year: 1973...

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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Draft Year: 1973 Amendment Years: None Category: International

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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna

and Flora

Draft Year: 1973Amendment Years: NoneCategory: International

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Function & Issues

• Created to protect animals and plants involved in international trade (and in some cases prohibit such trade)

• Provides framework for member nations to implement domestic laws regarding the trade and survival of plants and animals

• Prevents trade of most extinction-threatened species and controls trade of others (minimizes harvesting of species to a sustainable level)

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Regulation

• Once a member nation signs the agreement it pledges to carry out the laws and regulations set for by CITES

• Because enforcement is voluntary CITES is really only the foundation for regulation of the international trade of flora and fauna