Reality Check CITES@50 – CITES Admits It Is Too Impoverished To Cope
Two tragic things happened in the last month and taken together they highlight the lack of courage global conservation organisations and academics have shown in both exposing, and trying to fix, the structural weaknesses of the system that regulates the global, industrial trade in over 40,000 endangered and exotic species. First, in a submission document to CITES CoP20, the organisation’s leadership acknowledges, “The current mode of work is no longer viable”, continuing, “The time for action is now, to safeguard the Convention’s integrity and effectiveness”. A concern that Nature Needs More contacted the CITES leadership about in 2018. The second is that well-known global conservation organisations have lent their brands to help small, private sector entities [...]