{"id":8076,"date":"2022-11-20T08:17:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T02:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2025-03-29T00:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:12:48","slug":"ivory-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ivory-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ivory trade:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The proposal, to allow a regular form of\u00a0<strong>controlled trade<\/strong>\u00a0in ivory from Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, was defeated at the 19th meeting of the CITES (CoP19) in Panama City.<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s abstention \u2014 a break from its past stand \u2014 was in tune with what Namibia had asked for when it agreed\u00a0<strong>to transfer cheetahs this summer.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Ivory trade Ban<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The ivory trade was\u00a0<strong>globally banned in 1989<\/strong>\u00a0when all African elephant populations were put in CITES Appendix I.<\/li>\n<li><strong>No trade is allowed in species listed in CITES Appendix I\u00a0<\/strong>while trade is\u00a0<strong>strictly regulated in those under Appendix II.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is CITES?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an international agreement to which States and regional economic integration organizations adhere\u00a0<strong>voluntarily<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was drafted as a result of a\u00a0<strong>resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of IUCN (The World Conservation Union)<\/strong>.\u00a0It\u00a0<strong>entered into force in July 1975.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants\u00a0<strong>does not threaten the survival of the species.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Although CITES is\u00a0<strong>legally binding on the Parties<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 in other words they have to implement the Convention \u2013\u00a0<strong>it does not take the place of national laws.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The CITES Secretariat is administered by UNEP<\/strong>\u00a0and is located in Geneva, Switzerland.\u00a0<strong>The Conference of the Parties to CITES is the supreme decision-making body<\/strong>\u00a0of the Convention and comprises all its parties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/thanks-to-namibia-for-cheetahs-india-abstains-on-ivory-trade-vote-8278251\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory trade was globally banned in 1989 when all African elephant populations were put in CITES Appendix I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}