Endangered species (CITES)
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- Ensuring that the proliferation of environmental protection institutions are more effective
- ( A. Najam; M. Papa; N. Taiyab / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg , 2006)
- Since environmental issues entered the international agenda in the early 1970s, global environmental governance (GEG) institutions have been developing rapidly. As a consequence, however, the GEG syst...
- Illegal wildlife trade on the internet
- ( International Fund for Animal Welfare , 2005)
- The internet is now playing a central role in the activities of illegal wildlife traders. IFAW UK monitored the nature and scale of wildlife trade on the internet over several months, and found a huge...
- How effective are individual transferable quota system as an economic incentive conservation tool?
- ( K. Karousakis; B. Groom; J. MacGregor / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2004)
- This paper explores how individual transferable quota system (ITQs) can be used to act as economic incentives in conserving CITES-listed species, with particular reference to sturgeon fisheries of the...
- Enforcing CITES
- ( Traffic International , 2004)
- The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) enforcement is often significantly undermined by a lack of inter-agency cooperation at the national, regiona...
- Globalisation does not negatively impact on the environment
- ( J. Frankel / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2003)
- This paper examines the relationship between globalisation and the environment. Although it recognises that the relationship is too complicated to draw simplistic conclusions, it finds the following:...
- Conservation and poverty alleviation: incompatible objectives?
- ( Barnabas Dickson / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) aims to protect wild flora and fauna from threats posed by international trade. Could a rejigged CITES do more to promote sustainabl...
- How does CITES and other wildlife trade regulation affect rural livelihoods?
- ( D. Roe; S. Milledge; T Mulliken; J. Mremi; S. Mosha; M. Grieg-Gran / Traffic International , 2002)
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This document discusses the importance of wildlife trade for many rural livelihoods and the impact that wildlife trade regulations has on them.
The paper begins by outlining trade in wildlife which ...
- Overview of the CITES agreement and its history
- ( World Conservation Union , 2002)
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This special issue of World Conservation magazine discusses the background to the CITES agreement and the IUCN position on it.
The second paper in the issue discusses the need for the agreement and ...
- How can consumer countries deny market access to illegally logged timber products?
- ( D. Brack; K. Gray; G. Hayman / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK , 2002)
- This report examines how importing/consuming governments might establish and operate a system for denying market access to timber and wood products produced and exported illegally. It covers processes...
- Species protection, trade issues and development
- ( B. Dickson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI , 2002)
- Looks at how CITES measures have evolved over time and the growing interest in the use of restricted trade measures as a conservation tool. The report critically examines the effectiveness of CITES me...
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