[MPWG] Fwd: Press Release: 100+ experts advise on global trade in high-value CITES listed timbers

[De Angelis, Patricia]

News about the recent meeting of plant experts who are associated with
implementing the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).  If you have questions about the meeting or
CITES, please let me know and I'll do my best to respond. Thanks, Patricia

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Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 5:00 PM
Subject: Press Release: 100+ experts advise on global trade in high-value
CITES listed timbers
To: scientificauthority at fws.gov

Geneva/Tbilisi, 23 October 2015 – More than 100 plant experts from all over
the world met at the 22nd meeting of the CITES Plants Committee in Tbilisi,
Georgia from 19 to 23 October 2015 for its last meeting before the
17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP17) in
Johannesburg in September 2016.

The Plants Committee reviewed the conservation status of and trade in a
wide range of CITES-listed wild plants that are harvested for trade and
used in a large variety of products. They include high-value timbers such
as African teak, rosewood, palisander, African sandalwood and ebonies;
valuable non-timber forest products such as African cherry and agarwood; as
well as orchids and all sorts of orchid derivatives; medicinal plants; and
ornamental plants such as cacti.
Read more:
https://cites.org/eng/news/pr/100_experts_advise_on_global_trade_in_high_value_CITES_listed_timbers_23102015

CITES Secretariat

International Environment House
11 Chemin des Anemones
CH-1219 Chatelaine, Geneva
Switzerland
Fax: +41-22-797-34-17
info at cites.org
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