CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
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SPECIES/PROPONENT/PROPOSAL CURRENT STATUS OF SPECIES SSN VIEW<br />
Prop. 17<br />
Imperial pheasant<br />
Lophura imperialis<br />
• Distribution: Vietnam.<br />
• Population: An occasional natural hybrid between Edwards's pheasant<br />
(Lophura edwardsi, Critically Endangered (2012), <strong>CITES</strong> Appendix I) and<br />
the Silver Pheasant (Lophura nycthemera, Least Concern (2012), not<br />
<strong>CITES</strong>-listed).<br />
• Threats: Not applicable.<br />
• Trade: 18 live specimens exported internationally between 1980 and 2002,<br />
none wild<br />
SUPPORT<br />
• Proposal will have no effect on species since, as an occasional natural<br />
hybrid involving an Appendix I species, specimens will be remain subject<br />
to Appendix I provisions (RC 10.17 (Rev. CoP14) on Animal hybrids).<br />
• AC endorsed this proposal under Periodic Review of the Appendices (RC<br />
14.8).<br />
• SSN supports the Secretariat’s proposed rewording of the amendment<br />
to RC 12.11 on Standard nomenclature to state that specimens of<br />
‘Lophura imperialis’ should be treated as specimens of L. edwardsi.<br />
Switzerland, as the Depositary<br />
Government, at the request of the AC<br />
Deletion from Appendix I<br />
and amend standard reference for birds adopted<br />
by COP in the Annex to RC12.11 (Rev. CoP15):<br />
"Dickinson, E. C. (ed.) (2003): The Howard and<br />
Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the<br />
World. Revised and enlarged 3rd Edition. 1039<br />
pp. London (Christopher Helm)", inserting the following<br />
text in square brackets: [for all bird species<br />
– except for Lophura imperialis and the taxa<br />
mentioned below]<br />
Prop. 18<br />
Caspian snowcock<br />
Tetraogallus caspius<br />
• Distribution: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan.<br />
• Population: Least Concern (IUCN 2012); total population 6,700-33,000<br />
mature individuals (Birdlife International 2012b); decreasing trend.<br />
• Threats: Habitat degradation from over-grazing; over-hunting throughout<br />
most of its range.<br />
• Trade: No legal international trade recorded.<br />
SUPPORT<br />
• Listed in Appendix II in 1975.<br />
• AC endorsed this proposal under Periodic Review of the Appendices (RC<br />
14.8).<br />
Switzerland, as the Depositary<br />
Government, at the request of the AC<br />
Transfer from Appendix I to Appendix II<br />
www.ssn.org<br />
Continued<br />
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