Fifty years on, 185 countries are signatories to the convention, and more than 40,000 species of plants and animals are listed in its three appendices. CITES serves as a global database of legal ...

One of the biggest challenges when working on nature recovery is getting an accurate picture of which species live where ... the DNA code for specific sections of the DNA fragments found in the ...

As a result, CITES lists species in three Appendices according to the level of protection they require to avoid over-exploitation; species listed in Appendix I require the most protection and ...