CITES to Consider Delisting Certain Species, Work with FAO on Forestry Issues
On February 1, 2011, the Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species spoke at the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Committee on Fisheries. He stated that CITES works under the guidance of an MoU with FAO concluded…
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in 2006, that will soon be expanded to cover forestry and wildlife issues. He also stated that CITES could do more work on the criteria for species inclusion in CITES appendices, deleting certain "life-long" species listings, whether more fishery agencies should become management authorities under CITES, etc.