Switzerland: CITES lifts sanctions on Mexico over illegal fishing and vaquita protection

Published 2023년 4월 20일

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CITES has lifted sanctions on Mexico after the country revised its compliance action plan to protect two endangered species, following criticism for failing to regulate the capture and trade of totoaba and the vaquita. The revised plan, which has satisfied CITES, includes measures to reduce the use of gillnets in vaquita habitats. However, environmental experts remain skeptical, citing past failed promises and ongoing issues with illegal net use, as the vaquita teeters on extinction.

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On March 27, CITES imposed sanctions on Mexico for failing to take measures to protect two endangered species, which would have banned Mexican companies from exporting 40,900 CITES-protected wildlife products from overexploitation in international trade, including more than 3,000 commercially exported goods, including crocodile and snake skins. , mahogany, domestic reptiles and more. CITES sanctioned the country after it failed to submit a compliance action plan to protect two species that met CITES standards. CITES has directed Mexico to prepare a compliance action plan in November 2022 to address deficiencies in regulating the capture and trade of totoaba and the by-catch of the vaquita, a cetacean species with fewer than a dozen left in the wild. However, the plan that the country submitted on February 27, 2023 did not do enough to keep the two species safe. Since then, according to the new CITES notice, a "high-level delegation from Mexico" visited Geneva from 27 to 30 March ...

Source: Fishretail