[PCA] NEWS: Regulating Internet Trade in CITES Species

[Kwong, Olivia]

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12019/full?dmmsmid=85089&dmmspid=11400574&dmmsuid=2249036

Regulating Internet Trade in CITES Species
MAURIZIO SAJEVA, CLAUDIO AUGUGLIARO, MATTHEW J. SMITH, and ELISABETTA ODDO
Article first published online: 8 FEB 2013
Conservation Biology
Volume 27, Issue 2, pages 429–430, April 2013

International trade in species that are or may be endangered by collection
from the wild is regulated under the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) for 176 member States
(Parties). Internet commerce is a relatively new route for such trade. In
2007, the CITES Secretariat asked Parties to collect information on
internet wildlife trade and report problems and implemented regulations.
The reports indicated it was difficult to even approximate the influence of
e-commerce on CITES-listed species (CITES Secretariat 2009). We report a
case study in which we quantified international transactions over an
internet auction site of CITES-listed cacti and cross-checked them with
CITES trade data. Our results were both surprising and alarming.

See the link above for the journal article.
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