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 />
10<br />
Prop. 19<br />
Tibetan snowcock<br />
Tetraogallus tibetanus<br />
• Distribution: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Tajikistan.<br />
• Population: Least Concern (IUCN 2012); stable trend.<br />
• Threats: Some subsistence hunting and use as pets; climate change.<br />
• Trade: No legal trade recorded, although BirdLife International (2012c)<br />
reports captures for international pet trade.<br />
• SUPPORT<br />
• Listed in <strong>CITES</strong> 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 />
Prop. 20<br />
Attwater’s greater prairie chicken<br />
Tympanuchus cupido attwateri<br />
Switzerland, as the Depositary<br />
Government, at the request of the AC<br />
Transfer from Appendix I to Appendix II<br />
• Distribution: Texas, USA.<br />
• Population: Tympanuchus cupido Vulnerable (IUCN 2012); total number of<br />
T.c. attwateri in 2011 was ~110 individuals, but population size decreased in<br />
2012 by 58% to 46 birds in the wild.<br />
• Threats: Habitat loss to agriculture (grazing, conversion) and hunting in<br />
past; now population fragmentation and genetic isolation; disease.<br />
• Trade: One specimen reported in legal international trade since 1975 (in<br />
1996) and one report of illicit trade (two scientific specimens from USA<br />
captive-bred birds).<br />
SUPPORT<br />
• Proposal states Tympanuchus cupido attwateri meets the biological criteria<br />
for Appendix I.<br />
• <strong>Species</strong> is not affected by trade.<br />
• Fully protected in USA.<br />
• AC endorsed this proposal under Periodic Review of the Appendices (RC<br />
14.8).<br />
Prop. 21<br />
Imperial woodpecker<br />
Campephilus imperialis<br />
Mexico<br />
Deletion from Appendix I<br />
• Distribution: Mexico.<br />
• Population: Critically Endangered, possibly extinct (IUCN 2012); not<br />
recorded with certainty since 1956; if not extinct, population very small.<br />
• Threats: Hunting; habitat destruction and fragmentation.<br />
• Trade: Re-export from USA to Mexico of four specimens in 1996 for scientific<br />
purposes.<br />
OPPOSE<br />
• <strong>Species</strong> not considered extinct by IUCN; remote possibility that individuals<br />
survive; recent searches not successful, but not all habitat searched;<br />
BirdLife International (2011) states, “searches are ongoing and anecdotal<br />
reports are regularly pursued”; premature to delete from Appendices.<br />
• AC endorsed this proposal under Periodic Review of the Appendices (RC<br />
14.8); but RC 9.24 states, “<strong>Species</strong> that are regarded as possibly extinct<br />
should not be deleted from Appendix I if they may be affected by trade<br />
in the event of their rediscovery; these species should be annotated in<br />
the Appendices as ‘possibly extinct’”.