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Earth Negotiations Bulletin
Summary and Analysis
Monday, 27 April 2009
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Twenty-fourth meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Animals Committee

20-24 April 2009 | Geneva, Switzerland

Highlights for Monday, 20 April 2009

On Monday, 20 April 2009, David Morgan opened the 24th meeting of the Animals Committee (AC24) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) on behalf of CITES Secretary-General Willem Wijnstekers. He stressed the need for members to make practical recommendations to the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP15), by considering the challenges faced by customs officials and others who implement CITES.

AC Chair Thomas Althaus (Switzerland) welcomed participants and lamented that the AC would not be meeting back-to-back or jointly with the Plants Committee (PC) this year. He noted that such meetings allow for the streamlining of the CITES scientific committees’ work on issues such as cooperation with other international instruments, evaluation of the review of significant trade (RST), and the international expert workshop on non-detriment findings (NDFs).

The AC established six working groups on: the RST; ranching; periodic review; sturgeon; sharks; and sea cucumbers.
Thomas Althaus, Animals Committee Chair (Switzerland), explains that the wolf was chosen as the logo for the meeting because of recent evidence suggesting that wolves from Italy and France are naturally recolonizing areas in Switzerland from which they have been historically extirpated.
AC Chair Althaus has his binoculars again this year to better view participants’ flags in the back of the room.
Dena Cator, IUCN
David Morgan (CITES Secretariat) opens the meeting on behalf of CITES Secretary-General Willem Wijnstekers.
Related Links
CITES Resources
CITES Homepage
24th Meeting of the Animals Committee
AC24 Provisional Agenda and Documents
Summary Record of AC23
Executive Summary of PC18
Summary Record of the 57th Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee (SC57)

IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of PC18, 17-21 March 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina
IISD RS coverage of SC57, 14-18 July 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
IISD RS coverage of CITES CoP14, 3-15 June 2007, The Hague, the Netherlands
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