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35 unusual facts about CITES


Attapeu Province

The listed globally threatened wild life species are 14 (as per the World Conservation Union (IUCN Red List and 23 specuies according to the CITES.

Bachi

Similarly to guitar picks, bachi were traditionally made of tortoise shell (鼈甲, bekkou) or ivory (象牙, zouge), but these materials are rare and expensive (and illegal to trade in some territories, due to protection of endangered species), therefore making bachi in these materials highly expensive and impractical.

Baljurashi

The Arabian Leopard is classified as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List and listed in CITES Appendix 1.

Boa dumerili

Also listed as CITES Appendix I, which means that it is threatened with extinction and CITES prohibits international trade except when the purpose of the import is not commercial, for example for scientific research.

Boa madagascariensis

It is also listed as CITES Appendix I, which identifies it as threatened with extinction and recommends a prohibition in international trade except for scientific research.

Bothriechis guifarroi

It also recommended immediate consideration for CITES protection, given its likely demand and exploitation by the pet trade.

Bow frog

The attention given to the beauty of the bow frog continued throughout centuries, particularly with the use of tortoiseshell in the 19th and first part of the 20th century, like famous "tortoiseshell-mounted Hill bow, made by Barnes in the early 1920" (Ariane Todes, The Strad, 2012), until the use of tortoiseshell was regulated by CITES.

Charonia tritonis

In 1994, Australia proposed that Charonia tritonis should be put on the CITES list, thereby attempting to protect the species.

Cistanche

Cistanche deserticola has been placed on CITES Appendix 2, a list of endangered species not banned from trade but requiring monitoring.

Clark R. Bavin National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory

By treaty, the forensics laboratory is also the official crime lab for CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) and the Wildlife Group of Interpol.

Colophon primosi

Little is known of their life cycle and habitat requirements, though this has not deterred Japanese and European collectors, and consequently the genus has been placed on CITES Appendix II, banning all trade, exchange or sale of the insects.

Crocodylus novaeguineae

It is included in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Dalbergia

The pre-eminent rosewood appreciated in the western world is D. nigra known as Rio, Bahia, Brazilian Rosewood, Palisander de Rio Grande, or Jacarandá; heavily exploited in the past, it is now listed on CITES Appendix I.

Ernest Cooper

In 1988, while working for the Vancouver Aquarium, Cooper was offered a contract to identify wildlife products seized by Canada Customs for the enforcement of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Euphorbia mayurnathanii

It still exists in cultivation, but international trade is controlled as it is included on Appendix II of CITES.

Forest Stewardship Council

These include the International Tropical Timber Agreement (1983), the Convention of International Trade on Endangered Species (1975) and the Global Environment Facility (1991).

Gargoyle Gecko

This gecko, along with several other Rhacodactylus species are being considered for protective measures by CITES, which would put restrictions on their exportation.

Geography of Belize

Belize is party to the Basel Convention, Convention on Biological Diversity, Ramsar Convention, CITES, Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, Montreal Protocol, MARPOL 73/78, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Guaiacum angustifolium

Like other members of its genus, the international trade of Texas Lignum-vitae is restricted by CITES Appendix II.

Hoodia

Hoodia is currently listed in Appendix II to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which includes species not currently considered endangered but are at risk if trade is not controlled.

Lawrence M. Small

In 2004, Small pleaded guilty to violating federal bird-protection laws (ESA, CITES, MBTA) by owning Amazonian tribal artifacts that contained feathers of protected bird species.

Live rock

As of August 4, 2008 CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) banned the collection of live rock from Tonga, the Marshall Islands, and the Cook Islands.

Montagne des Français

Of the herpetofauna, eight species are endemic to the Montagne des Français, 28 are regional endemics, 2 are listed as globally threatened in IUCN's 2006 Red List and 14 species are CITES listed.

Ornithoptera croesus

It is also listed in the Appendix II of CITES, restricting international trade to captive-raised specimens only.

Ornithoptera tithonus

It is listed in appendix II of CITES, restricting international export to those who have been granted a permit.

Ornithoptera victoriae

It is listed in the Appendix II of CITES, meaning that international trade is restricted to captive-raised specimens.

Parides klagesi

Because of the prior CITES listing and apparent rarity, this species was placed in the endangered species list for the northern Brazilian state of Pará.

Redspotted catshark

Redspotted catsharks are not listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List, the U.S. Federal List, or the CITES list.

Rhacodactylus leachianus

R. leachianus is currently being evaluated for protected status by CITES.

Rhacodactylus sarasinorum

R. sarasinorum is currently being evaluated by CITES for protective status and is considered vulnerable to extinction in many herpetological circles.

Rhacodactylus trachyrhynchus

This gecko is considered to be in danger of extinction due to disappearing habitat and is being considered for protected status by CITES.

Swietenia

These days almost all mahogany is yielded by the mainland species, Swietenia macrophylla although no longer from its native locations due to the restrictions set by CITES (see following.)

As a timber, both Swietenia macrophylla and Swietenia mahogoni are both grown in plantations in several Asian countries such as Fiji, Indonesia, India, and Bangladesh and this plantation mahogany timber is the main source of the world's current supply of "genuine mahogany", due to cultivation and trade of it in its native locations being restricted by the Convention On International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna CITES since the late 1990s.

Szabolcs Kókay

During the period between 1996 and 2001 he was working in nature conservation, first in BirdLife Hungary, then on the Washington Convention (CITES).

Troides vandepolli

It is endemic for Indonesia and is protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).


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Alain Passard

Acclaimed chef David Kinch of the Los Gatos, California restaurant Manresa cites Passard as “the chef who has most inspired me” in his 2013 cookbook.

Alex Rigopulos

Rigopulos personally cites Japanese game designers Masaya Matsuura, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, and Keita Takahashi as some artists that have inspired his work at Harmonix.

Berthold-Bezelin

Jackman cites Berthold of Ham (d. 1101), advocate of Prüm and documented with the Vianden cognomen, as a probable scion of this family and founder of the House of Vianden, a Sponheim branch.

Christian views on poverty and wealth

He cites Cicero and Seneca as examples of Roman thought about the making of money.

Colette Gouvion

She has written a number of books, including Les Enfants Problemes, La Symbolique des Rues et des Cités, La Voix des Nouveaux Paysans, Béatrice de Planissoles, Plus vous que Moi and The Gardeners of God.

Cornovii

Graham Webster in The Cornovii (1991), about the Midlands tribe, cites Anne Ross's hypothesis and points out that it is interesting that the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance has survived from pagan ritual – Abbot's Bromley being only 55 km away from the tribal centre of Viroconium.

David DeRosa

He cites M. C. Escher, Alphonse Mucha and Mondrian among his influences, and is a fourth-generation student of Auguste Rodin.

David Milhous

David cites John Ford, Philip Glass and Henri Cartier-Bresson as his greatest creative influences and is a lifetime member of The American Film Institute and The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Fantastic Planet

Madlib cites the film as an influence, using visuals from the film on his album covers and samples of the soundtrack on his songs.

Flacinus

A document of 27 May 912 in the Libro de los Testamentos that cites Flacinus is a twelfth-century forgery of the bishop Pelagius, not as it claims of a certain bishop Hermenegild.

Frumentius

According to the 4th-century historian Rufinus (x.9), who cites Frumentius' brother Edesius as his authority, as children (ca. 316) Frumentius and Edesius accompanied their uncle Meropius from their birthplace of Tyre (in present-day Lebanon) on a voyage to Ethiopia.

Green museum

For instance, Disney's Animal Kingdom cites Richard Louv's Nature Deficit Disorder as one justification for their Kids' Discovery Clubs, which focuses on encouraging children to not only learn about animals but also find out what they can do to help wildlife.

Hiero II of Syracuse

In The Prince (VI), Machiavelli cites Hiero as an exceptionally virtuous man and a rare example of someone who rose to princehood from private station, comparing him to Moses, Cyrus, Theseus,and Romulus.

Hisham Bizri

On his website, Bizri cites some of his favorite film: Arabic Series (Stan Brakhage, 1981), Au Hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966), Gertrud (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1964),

Hotel Danieli

CNN cites it as one of the top five "lavish hotels" in the city.

Ian Fergusson

In his BBC biography, Fergusson cites his longstanding interest in Formula One motor-racing and has often indicated that he is a supporter of 2008 F1 World Champion & McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton.

John Scholasticus

Balsamon cites this without naming the author, in his notes on the first canon of the Trullan council of Constantinople.

Kit-Cat Club

Downes cites John Oldmixon, who knew many of those involved, and who wrote in 1735 of how some club members "before the Revolution of 1688 met frequently in the Evening at a Tavern, near Temple Bar, to unbend themselves after Business, and have a little free and cheerful Conversation in those dangerous Times".

Le dimensioni del mio caos

He also cites the groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster, which has become famous for having made some casts of the genitals of Hendrix and other artists.

Lower Decks

In his "Production Notes: Doodles in the Margins of Time" in 2007, Doctor Who executive producer Russell T Davies cites "Lower Decks" along with the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer episode "The Zeppo" as an influence on his 2006 Doctor Who episode "Love & Monsters".

Mario Montoya Uribe

The report cites an informant who claimed that plans for the attack were signed by General Montoya and paramilitary leader Fabio Jaramillo, who was a subordinate of Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano, also known as Don Berna.

Midnight Ridazz

Josh Anderson, founder of "Bike Gang" in Grand Junction, Colorado, cites an Alternative Press article about Midnight Ridazz as his inspiration for organizing the group/ride.

National cinema

MacKenzie argues that Canadian cinema has a "...self-conscious concern with the incorporation of cinematic and televisual images", and as examples, he cites films such as David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983), Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing (1987), Robert Lepage's Le Confessional (1995) and Srinivas Krishna's Masala (1991).

National Union of Mineworkers headquarters

In his 2010 book A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley cites as ironic the fact that the NUM headquarters is more sympathetic to the history of Sheffield than anything constructed by New Labour, despite the latter's professed concern for "heritage".

Passport system in the Soviet Union

The document declared that all citizens at least sixteen years old residing in cites, towns, and urban workers' settlements, as well as residing within one hundred kilometres of Moscow and Leningrad, within fifty kilometres of Kharkov, Kiev, Minsk, Rostov-on-Don and Vladivostok and within the hundred-kilometre zone along the Western border of the USSR were required to have a passport with propiska.

Peter Elbow

Elbow cites diaries, letters, stories, poems, and so forth as ways that students write for themselves with no teachers involved.

Peter Terrin

Terrin cites Willem Frederik Hermans as an important influence for his minimalist style, and critics have recognized the influence of J. Bernlef in his prose.

Reformed Episcopal Church

Bishop Cummins describes the evolution in his understanding of these influences within the church and prayer book in a letter to Bishop Cheney, where he cites earlier attempts to create reforms within the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Richard Ashby

As well as Grundy, Richard considers France's David Benyamine to be the best Omaha player in Europe, although he cites Phil Ivey as the only player he would consider sitting out against.

Starčevo site

The culture of Starčevo is connected with other cites from Balkan and middle Europe where they use the term Starčevo-Keres-Kris culture in Hungary and Romania cites to symbolize the union of three close culture: culture of Starčevo, culture of Kereska and culture of Kris all of them located on the region of today southeast Hungary, Serbia and Romania.

Takeda Kanryūsai

Rurouni Kenshin author Nobuhiro Watsuki cites Takeda Kanryūsai as the inspiration for a character by the name of Takeda Kanryū, who appears for a few chapters in the manga, as well as in the television series of the same name.

Tim Vickery

Vickery cites as his main influences the “old style” of Brian Glanville, whose “international consciousness” always appealed, as well as the “social consciousness” of The Sunday Times’ Hugh McIlvanney.

Units of paper quantity

Simon Winchester, in The Surgeon of Crowthorne, cites a specific number, defining quire as "a booklet eight pages thick."

Virgin of the Rocks

In her 1967 book (published in English in 1985) Angela Ottino della Chiesa cites four paintings derived to some degree from The Virgin of the Rocks: the Holy Family and St. John by Bernardino Luini in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the Thuelin Madonna by Marco d'Oggiono in the Thuelin collection in Paris and the Holy Infants Embracing by Joos van Cleve in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.

Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?

William Edward Arnal and Michel Robert Desjardins in their Whose Historical Jesus? (1997) cites the book while comparing the different hypotheses on the "Qumranites", citing other scholars such as James H. Charlesworth (Jesus and the Dead Scrolls, 203) who judges that the Qumranites were one of the Essenes groups, and Hartmut Stegemann.

Willie Moretti

In the Sopranos episode D-Girl, the character Christopher Moltisanti tells Jon Favreau the story of Moretti intimidating Tommy Dorsey, which Favreu cites as the inspiration for the Corleone family's efforts to intimidate studio head Jack Woltz into casting Johnny Fontane in one of his movies (by killing one of his prized race horses and putting the head in Woltz's bed) in The Godfather.