{"id":26182,"date":"2016-10-03T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/?p=26182"},"modified":"2016-10-11T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T07:35:06","slug":"cites-cop17-a-johannesburg-rapports-detape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/cites-cop17-a-johannesburg-rapports-detape\/","title":{"rendered":"CITES CoP17. Johannesburg &#8211; Progess Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CITES \u2013 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 17th Conference of the Parties. Johannesburg \u2013 South Africa<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> September 24 to October 5, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>October 3, 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The proposal of Swaziland on a limited and regulated trade of the white rhino\u2019s horn was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Bad news. The listing in Appendix I of all populations of African elephants was rejected. The European Union voted against. France was favorable but unfortunately in minority. Brazil also voted against. Botswana withdrew from the Southern African countries coalition (Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique) by voting in favour of the proposition.<\/p>\n<p>Elephants are not the only victims of poaching. Rangers and poachers die by the hundreds and leave behind wives and orphans. Poaching causes civil war. Appendix I would have helped to restore peace.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September 28, 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Worldwide consensus to save pangolins and Barbary macaque (<em>Macaca sylvanus<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITES \u2013 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora 17th Conference of the Parties. Johannesburg \u2013 South Africa September 24 to October 5, 2016 &nbsp; October 3, 2016 The proposal of Swaziland on a limited and regulated trade of the white rhino\u2019s horn was rejected. Bad news. The listing in Appendix I of all populations of African elephants was rejected. The European Union voted against. France was favorable but unfortunately in minority. Brazil also voted against. Botswana withdrew from the Southern African countries coalition (Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique) by voting in favour of the proposition. Elephants are not the only victims of poaching. Rangers and poachers die by the hundreds and leave behind wives and orphans. Poaching causes civil war. Appendix I would have helped to restore peace. September 28, 2016 Worldwide consensus to save pangolins and Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus). &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,92,371,2593,1948],"class_list":["post-26182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe","tag-braconnage","tag-cites","tag-contrebande","tag-convention-de-washinton","tag-espece-menacee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}