Countries Seek Urgent CITES Protection of More Than 70 Sharks and Rays
Several proposals seeking greater protection of more than 70 shark and ray species from commercial trade were raised this week for deliberation at the 20th meeting of CITES, the global convention on the wildlife trade, to be held in November.
“The world is at a tipping point for sharks and rays,” Luke Warwick, director of shark and ray conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said in a press release. He added that more than 37% of shark and ray species are threatened with...
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