Highlights and images for 20 July 2017

Summary

On Thursday, 20 July, the 29th meeting of the Animals Committee met in parallel working groups in the morning and early afternoon, in plenary in the late afternoon, and in a working group and a side event in the evening. Six working groups were held on: captive-bred and ranched specimens (chaired by AC Chair Mathias Lörtscher, Switzerland), periodic review (chaired by Rosemarie Gnam, US/North America), corals (co-chaired by Simon Nemtzov, Israel/Europe, and Giyanto Giyanto, Indonesia/Asia), freshwater stingrays (chaired by Marcel Enzo Calvar Agrelo, Uruguay), Banggai cardinalfish (chaired by Carolina Caceres, Canada/North America), and eels (chaired by Vin Fleming, UK/Europe).

Among other things, the working group on captive-bred and ranched specimens developed a list of species-country combinations to be addressed under the new process for review.

For the periodic review, participants identified 20 animal taxa to potentially review during the next two intersessional periods (from CoP17 to CoP19). They also explored funding options for, and ideas to facilitate, periodic reviews.

On corals, participants discussed terms of reference for intersessional work on corals and analyzed the outcomes of the CITES survey on coral conservation and trade.

Freshwater stingray working group members formulated recommendations on developing population trend models for freshwater stingrays.

The Banggai cardinalfish working group heard Indonesia’s initial progress report on the conservation of the species, and gave input on the Secretariat’s upcoming study on the impact of international trade.

In plenary, discussions were held on eels, the Black sea bottlenose dolphin, tortoises and freshwater turtles, and the African lion.

The eel working group met in the evening to discuss future CITES work on eels.

IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage and a summary and analysis report from the 29th Meeting of the CITES Animals Committee, Joint Meeting of the CITES Animals and Plants Committees, and 23rd Meeting of the CITES Plants Committee. The summary and analysis is now available in HTML and PDF.

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