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- 22 December 2012: Cameroon protects itself against elephant poachers by sending the army to its national park
- 21 December 2012: Environment: Funding to boost INTERPOL fight against wildlife crime
- 18 December 2012: Ivory traders must register by January
- 15 December 2012: 3 New Slow Loris Species Discovered in Borneo; Rare Venomous Primates Threatened by Illegal Pet Trade
- 14 December 2012: New national Inuit leader Audla assembles his to-do list
- 14 December 2012: Trafficking of protected species on the rise
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News and highlights
- 24 December: CITES welcomes United Nations Security Council call to investigate links between elephant poaching, ivory smuggling and illicit financing of the LRA
- 20 December: The 177th Party: Maldives
- 13 December: On-line registration available now for CITES CoP16
- 12 December: Dalberg Report on Fighting Illicit Wildlife Trafficking
- 12 December: CITES Secretary-General welcomes adoption of a draft resolution for the United Nations General Assembly urging countries to take action against illegal wildlife trade
- 21 November: CITES supports UNODC-led PATROL cross-border law enforcement training programme in Cambodia and Viet Nam
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New Notifications
- 5 December: Proposals to amend Appendices I and II – Provisional assessments by the Secretariat
- 30 November: Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties - General information
Annex: Registration form
- 16 November: Amendments of Appendices I and II of the Convention
- 22 October: Standard nomenclature – Standard references to be considered at CoP16
- 25 September: Implementation of Resolution Conf. 12.8 (Rev. CoP13) (Review of Significant Trade in specimens of Appendix-II species) - Recommendations of the Standing Committee
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CITES calendar
- 2 January 2013: Deadline to submit documents for discussion at 63rd meeting of the CITES Standing Committee ( Bangkok, Thailand)
- 7-11 January: ITTO-CITES meeting on Sustainable Forest Management in CITES: Ensuring that International Trade in CITES-listed Tree Species is Consistent with their Sustainable Management and Conservation. Bali, Indonesia
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