GENEVA: Conservationists warned of"unprecedented" species declines Saturday as countries met in Geneva to tighten rules on trade in elephant ivory and products from other endangered animal and plants.
"My fear is that we are ... now really on the edge," Higuero told AFP ahead of the conference, saying she hoped the delegates in Geneva would"make what we call transformative change.""There is no alternative," he told the conference, which was moved to Switzerland at the last moment following the deadly suicide bombings that hit the originally-scheduled host Sri Lanka in April.
The African Elephant Database estimates that by 2015, fewer than 415,000 of the giant mammal remained on the continent. And for the first time, a request has been made to list the African giraffe population in CITES' Appendix II, which would require tracking and regulation of international trade in giraffe parts.
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