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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
Annex - 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 Annex
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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.
- 4 March: ICCWC Ministerial Meeting on Combating Transnational Organized Wildlife and Forestry Crimes, Bangkok, Thailand (see the concept note and background document)
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