What is CITES and how does it affect sea turtles and other animals?
By jhjanicki on Friday,September 30th, 2016 in Awareness, Conservation, Research, Wildlife Trade, No Comments
Sea turtles were first included in CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) in 1975. At that time, hundreds of thousands of sea turtles were killed every year for international trade. There are three appendices in CITES for which various threatened species are listed and their international trade […]