UPSC/PCS Environment Topic:CITES in full detail from official website✅️
🅾️CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species.
🔵The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (or CITES) was opened to the world’s governments for signature on 3 March, 1973 in Washington DC, at the end of the Plenipotentiaries Conference hosted by the United States of America – this meeting became known as the ‘World Wildlife Conference’.
🅾️And this year on March 3rd, 2023; it marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of a landmark convention that stands at the crossroads of wildlife conservation and sustainable trade
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