CITES - CoP16 info sources

CoP16 updates

CITES - CoP16 info sources

The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP16) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, 3 to 15 March 2013.

Below you will find links to good sources of information and updates related to this, for elephants and other species, critical conference.

Here you will find an ElephantVoices page with links to selected sources of information and updates from the previous CITES' Conference of the Parties, CoP15, in Doha, Qatar, 13 to 25 March 2010. This includes CITES' own summary press release and a CoP15 comment by ElephantVoices.

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1	CITES CoP16 Overview Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, CoP16, Bangkok, Thailand.	65
2	CoP16: Provisional agenda and working documents Most documents provided in pdf format, for download.	48
3	CoP16: Proposals for amendment of Appendices I and II Most documents provided in pdf format, for download.	42
4	CoP16: CITES Secretariat’s Recommendations List of proposals to amend Appendices I and II and CITES, Secretariat’s Recommendations. (.pdf) See proposal 12 (Burkano Faso, Kenya). Proposal 11 (Tanzania) withdrawn.	40
5	CITES: Decision-making mechanism for a process of trade in ivory (DMM) This document has been submitted by the CITES Chair of the Standing Committee, but has not been endorsed by the full Standing Committee. It was prepared by the CITES Secretariat at the request of the Standing Committee. (pdf, 83kb)	41
6	CITES 2013: Elephants. NATIONAL IVORY ACTION PLANS. Elephants - NATIONAL IVORY ACTION PLANS. SC64 Doc. 2. Sixty-fourth meeting of the Standing Committee Bangkok (Thailand), 14 March 2013. CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA (CITES). (22 kb file size).	21
7	UNEP, CITES, IUCN, TRAFFIC (2013). ELEPHANTS IN THE DUST. THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT CRISIS. UNEP, CITES, IUCN, TRAFFIC (2013). Elephants in the Dust – The African Elephant Crisis. A Rapid Response Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme, GRID-Arendal. www.grida.no. ISBN: 978-82-7701-111-0. (Note: 41.3 mb file size.)	50
8	Kenya Elephant Forum, Fact Sheets Elephants & the Ivory Trade The Kenya Elephant Forum (KEF), in which ElephantVoices is an active member, has developed seven fact sheets related to elephants and the ivory trade. The fact sheets reflect the positions of KEF, and are timed to coincide with CITES CoP16 in Bangkok, Thailand, March 2013. 1. The African Elephant Coalition (AEC) and Kenya Elephant Forum (KEF). 2. The Ivory Trade & Elephant Poaching. 3. CITES and the Ivory Trade. 4. Proposals on the African Elephant for CoP16. 5. Elephants and Ecosystems. 6. Action to Stop the Illegal Killing of Elephants. 7. The CITES ‘Decision Making Mechanism’, DMM.	56
9	Elephants are not Diamonds (The Ecologist, 8th Febr. 2013) "Katarzyna Nowak and her colleagues reignite the debate on whether a regulated legal trade in ivory can ever be a mechanism advantageous to elephant conservation." The Ecologist, 8th February 2013. Authors: Katarzyna Nowak, Andy Dobson, Joyce Poole, Petter Granli, Paula Kahumbu, Phyllis Lee, Winnie Kiiru, Ponjoli Joram, Cyprian Malima, Cynthia Moss.	40
10	Elephants, Ivory, and Trade (Science, 2010) Samuel Wasser, Joyce Poole, Phyllis Lee, Keith Lindsay, Andrew Dobson, John Hart, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, George Wittemyer, Petter Granli, Bethan Morgan, Jody Gunn, Susan Alberts, Rene Beyers, Patrick Chiyo, Harvey Croze, Richard Estes, Kathleen Gobush, Ponjoli Joram, Alfred Kikoti, Jonathan Kingdon, Lucy King, David Macdonald, Cynthia Moss, Benezeth Mutayoba, Steve Njumbi, Patrick Omondi, Katarzyna Nowak. 2010. Elephants, Ivory, and Trade: Trade decisions made by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species must place science over politics. Science (327) 1331-1332.	28
11	Early life care shapes African elephants' future (BBC News, 13th Febr. 2013) "An African elephants mother's ability to feed and care for its calf has "long-lasting consequences" into adulthood, a study has suggested." BBC News, 13 Febr. 2013. Authors: Phyllis C. Lee, Luc F. Bussière, C. Elizabeth Webber, Joyce H. Poole and Cynthia J. Moss. (http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/9/2/20130011, download paper on http://tinyurl.com/a5q8p5c)	35
12	Harmonizing Elephant Deaths (National Geographic Blog A Voice for Elephants, 5th Febr. 2013) Blog post related to the "harmonization" of elephant mortality data in Kenya, and, for the authors, the troubling consequences of the lack of transparency surrounding MIKE data. The MIKE program involves collecting specific data on elephant mortality from some 52 “MIKE sites” or populations of monitored elephants across Africa, with one of its primary aims being to monitor whether and how the decisions taken at CITES might be impacting levels of poaching on the ground. Authors: Joyce Poole/Petter Granli	90
13	US Fish & Wildlife Service CITES CoP16 page, with links to other relevant sources.	36

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