CITES PROPOSALS FOR CHANGES TO APPENDIX I AND APPENDIX II 2016

[BRICKBURN]

https://cites.org/eng/cop/17/prop/index.php

60 Proposals:

Interesting that a few are requesting DOWN LISTING some species:
A couple of true leaders in Conservation.
South Africa proposes the transfer of the Cape mountain zebra, Equus zebra zebra, from Appendix I to Appendix II


Canada purposes a Transfer of Puma concolor coryi and Puma concolor couguar, from Appendix I to Appendix II

Canada purposes Delete Bison bison athabascae from Appendix II

Canada proposes Transfer Falco peregrinus from Appendix I to Appendix II


Here is the MOST POLITICAL proposal I can see:
Proponents:
Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Kenya, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sri Lanka and Uganda

Inclusion of all populations of Loxodonta africana (African elephant) in Appendix I through the transfer from Appendix II to Appendix I of the populations of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe

UPLISTING to CITES I for the most over populated Elephant populations in Africa.

I wonder if the USFWS dropped twenty bucks to each proponent country.

 

[CAustin]

WOW! USFW doesn't get it!

 

[rinehart0050]

So are these recommendations based on population estimates of the species by country or just based off input from PETA? Doesn't seem like the recommendations line up with reality...?

 

[rinehart0050]

I found this one interesting given the recent thread about Kenya burning rhino horns and elephant ivory:

Swaziland:

To alter the existing annotation on the Appendix II listing of Swaziland’s white rhino, adopted at the 13th Conference of Parties in 2004, so as to permit a limited and regulated trade in white rhino horn which has been collected in the past from natural deaths, or recovered from poached Swazi rhino, as well as horn to be harvested in a non-lethal way from a limited number of white rhino in the future in Swaziland

 

[BRICKBURN]

So are these recommendations based on population estimates of the species by country or just based off input from PETA? Doesn't seem like the recommendations line up with reality...?

Any of the parties to the Convention can make proposals. Apparently the folks in Western Africa think they are getting a raw deal by having their Elephants in a different Appendix than those guys down south. Hence my political comment.