CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network

Analysis of the Proposals to Amend Appendices I and II
SPECIES/PROPONENT/PROPOSAL CURRENT STATUS OF SPECIES SSN VIEW
To be discussed at the 16th Conference of the CITES Parties, Bangkok, Thailand, 3-14 March 2013
Abbreviations used: RC=Resolution Conf. • CoP=Conference of the Parties • SC=Standing Committee • AC=Animals Committee
PC=Plants Committee • WG=Working Group • EU=European Union • References cited available upon request
SPECIES/PROPONENT/PROPOSAL CURRENT STATUS OF SPECIES SSN VIEW
Prop. 1
Abruzzo chamois
Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata
• Distribution: Italy.
• Population: Vulnerable (IUCN 2008); very small population (approximately
1,500 individuals) in three parks; population increasing due to strict protection,
captive breeding and reintroductions.
• Threats: Competition with livestock.
• Trade: International trade since 1975: 143 skins (plus 800 kg skins), 29
trophies, 10 live animals and four bodies; 20 garments and three trophies
exported from Italy.
SUPPORT
• Killing, take, disturbance, possession or commercial use prohibited
under national law and EU legislation.
• AC endorsed this proposal by postal procedure after AC26 as part of
Periodic Review of the Appendices (RC 14.8).
• The Handbook of the Mammals of the World, v.2, treats R. p. ornata
as a full species; AC Nomenclature WG has decided not to follow this
classification.
Denmark on behalf of EU
Transfer from Appendix I to Appendix II
Prop. 2
Vicuña
Vicugna vicugna
Ecuador
• Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru; reintroduced in Ecuador in
1984.
• Population: Least Concern (IUCN 2008); proposal states 4,824 individuals
in Ecuador.
• Threats: Poaching; Ecuador--no records of poaching; collision with vehicles
is primary threat.
• Trade: Currently none from Ecuador; Ecuador seeks to initiate a communitybased
catch and release program for shearing of and trade in vicuna fiber;
members of the Convention for the Conservation and Management of the
Vicuña agreed to the proposed downlisting (Resolution No.341/2012): currently,
all populations on Appendix I except certain populations of Argentina
and Chile and the entire populations of Peru and Bolivia, which are included
in Appendix II.
OPPOSE
• Ecuador’s small population continues to meet biological criteria for listing
in Appendix I (RC 9.24 (Rev. CoP15), Annex 1).
• RC 9.24 (Rev. CoP15), Annex 4, A) 2) states, “species included in
Appendix I should only be transferred to Appendix II if they do not satisfy
the relevant criteria in Annex 1.”
• Ecuador does not provide sufficient information to evaluate whether
effective management and enforcement controls are in place if trade in
this population where allowed.
• Population meets criteria for inclusion in Appendix I (RC 9.24
(Rev. CoP15) Annex 1, A) ii)): wild population is small • in
demand for trade
Transfer from Appendix I to Appendix II, the
populations of Ecuador
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