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 ...

The CITES CoP19 Parties voted in committee to list all 54 species of the requiem sharks and hammerhead sharks on CITES Appendix II. This news ... Conservation Fund has found that more than 70% ...

In 2013, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) listed all species of Malagasy rosewood and ebony on Appendix II, its list ... species are only found only in that ...

Or glass frog: That’s why all 158 species were added to Appendix II of CITES ... also under CITES protection, have been found in DNA barcoding studies of the Chinese shark fin trade.

"Lonesome George", found in 1971 ... Looking only at species extinctions doesn't give the full picture, partly because scientists are so conservative in saying a species is gone.