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Big win for Pacific nations over protection

Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Local

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Big win for Pacific nations over protection
Products from three species of thresher sharks are to need special permission before they can be exported. 16100952

SILKY sharks, all three species of thresher sharks and all nine species of mobula rays (devil rays) will be listed on Appendix II of CITES after a series of landslide votes at the 17th Conference of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Johannesburg, South Africa.

SILKY sharks, all three species of thresher sharks and all nine species of mobula rays (devil rays) will be listed on Appendix II of CITES after a series of landslide votes at the 17th Conference of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Johannesburg, South Africa.


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