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Thomas Gumbricht bio photo By Thomas Gumbricht

Long delays in banning trade in threatened species

We find that in nearly two-thirds of the cases, the CITES process of regulating trade in threatened species lags considerably behind the IUCN identification of species in need of protection from trade. … This resulted in 958 threatened species for which we can link international trade as a factor in their endangerment. Scientific knowledge should be applied with more urgency.

By Eyal G. Frank, et al. Feb 15th, 2019