What does CITES stand for?

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (international agreement; Geneva, Switzerland)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Tigers are listed as a protected and endangered species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora that Vietnam is a party to.

Two frozen tigers seized in Vietnam: newspapers

Tigers are listed as a protected and endangered species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora that Vietnam is a party to.

Two frozen tigers seized in Vietnam: newspapers

From 1992 to 2006, approximately 31,294 live polar bears, carcasses or parts were exported to 73 different countries, according to data collected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

US seeks tougher protections for polar bear

Last year's levels 'probably represent the highest level of illegal rhinoceros killing in at least 15 years', the groups said in a briefing to a meeting of the standing committee for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species yesterday in Geneva.

Rise in poaching threatens to wipe out the rhino

Scientists are also set to meet in Denmark to issue recommendations on the Atlantic porbeagle which, despite dwindling numbers, failed to earn protection at the last meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), in 2007.

Third of open ocean sharks face extinction

All remaining subspecies of black rhino are listed in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and Wild Fauna and Flora.

Kenya moves to conserve endangered black rhino

Leopards may find themselves in a tight spot now that The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has approved a Ugandan proposal to allow sport hunting of leopards.

Spotty logic?

The word Endangered is featured prominently in the title: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Fact or fiction: CITES and the ESA