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4th Session of the IPBES Plenary and Stakeholder Days
Delegates left Kuala Lumpur in a celebratory mood after having successfully accepted technical reports, approved two summaries for policy makers and thereby delivered the first IPBES products on time. Many were encouraged by the constructive atmosphere during the line-by-line negotiations of the texts, which some had expected to be far more arduous and politically charged.
66th Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee
The Committee addressed a long agenda, including, among others: livelihoods, captive breeding, and species trade and conservation, with discussions focusing on elephants and National Ivory Action Plans, rhinos, Asian big cats, saiga antelope, great apes, pangolins, sharks and rays, sturgeons and paddlefish, ebony and rosewoods and African teak.