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unusual facts about Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species



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.

Troides vandepolli

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


see also

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.

Crocodylus novaeguineae

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

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.

International parrot trade

Several True Parrots from the Ara genus (Great Green Macaw, Blue-throated Macaw, Scarlet Macaw, Military Macaw), are all protected under Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered 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.

Swietenia

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.