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24 February 2013: Snake skin fashion in Europe putting pythons at risk
23 February 2013: Phuket hosts single-day CITES program on ivory trade
22 February 2013: Measures curb illegal ivory trade in China
22 February 2013: Kenya puts squeeze on SA over rhino trophies
22 February 2013: The Inuit take on the world's greens and animal rightists
22 February 2013: Poaching Surge Threatens Africa's Elephants
22 February 2013: Ivory dealers as bad as drug runners, says UN
21 February 2013: Call to hit ivory smugglers hard using tactics from war on drugs
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News and highlights
18 February: Wildlife crime consortium to host high-level events on transnational organized wildlife crime at CITES Conference
18 February: CITES Secretary-General praises Operation Cobra
16 February: Remarks by CITES Secretary-General Mr. John E. Scanlon at an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of CITES
8 February: CITES Secretariat presents recommendations on proposals to amend the CITES Appendices
31 January: ITTO and CITES launch first report on timber tracking technologies
21 January: Launching the official logo for the 40th anniversary of CITES
11 January: Recent trade of elephants from Zimbabwe to China - Public statement of the CITES Secretariat
26 December: Tanzania withdraws its proposal to downlist African elephant
24 December: CITES welcomes United Nations Security Council call to investigate links between elephant poaching, ivory smuggling and illicit financing of the LRA
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New Notifications
4 February: First global meeting of the wildlife enforcement networks
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1 February: Roundtable on combating transnational organized wildlife and forest crime for ministers and high-level representatives
Annex
22 January: Conservation of and trade in African and Asian rhinoceroses
21 January: Reservations
15 January: Court-ordered export permits for specimens of Appendix-II species
15 January: List of valid Notifications
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CITES calendar
2 March: 63rd meeting of the CITES Standing Committee, Bangkok, Thailand
3 March: 40th anniversary of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
3-14 March: 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, Thailand
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4 March: ICCWC Ministerial Meeting on Combating Transnational Organized Wildlife and Forestry Crimes, Bangkok, Thailand (see the
concept note
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background document
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