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SPECIES/PROPONENT/PROPOSAL CURRENT STATUS OF SPECIES SSN VIEW 4 Prop. 6 Crescent nailtail wallaby Onychogalea lunata • Distribution: Australia. • Population: Extinct (IUCN 2008); not seen in wild since 1956. • Threats: Habitat modification, predation, hunting. • Trade: None except for a few museum specimens. SUPPORT • Listed in 1975 when already thought to be extinct. • Trade would be regulated under Australian law if rediscovered. • AC26 supports deletion (AC26 WG1 Doc. 2). Australia Deletion from Appendix I Prop. 7 Desert rat kangaroo / Buff-nosed rat kangaroo Caloprymnus campestris • Distribution: Australia. • Population: Extinct (IUCN 2008); not seen in wild since 1935. • Threats: Habitat alteration and predation. • Trade: None except for a few museum specimens. SUPPORT • Listed in in 1975when already thought to be extinct. • Trade would be regulated under Australian law if rediscovered. • AC26 supports deletion (AC26 WG1 Doc. 2). Australia Deletion from Appendix I Prop. 8 Pig-footed bandicoot Chaeropus ecaudatus • Distribution: Australia. • Population: Extinct (IUCN 2008); not seen in wild since 1901. • Threats: Habitat modification, disease and predation. • Trade: None except for a few museum specimens. SUPPORT • Listed in in 1975 when already thought to be extinct. • Trade would be regulated under Australian law if rediscovered. • AC26 supports deletion (AC26 WG1 Doc. 2). Australia Deletion from Appendix I
SPECIES/PROPONENT/PROPOSAL CURRENT STATUS OF SPECIES SSN VIEW Prop. 9 Lesser bilby Macrotis leucura • Distribution: Australia. • Population: Extinct (IUCN 2008); not seen in wild since 1931. • Threats: Predation and habitat alteration. • Trade: None except for a few museum specimens. SUPPORT • Listed in in 1975 when already thought to be extinct. • Trade would be regulated under Australian law if rediscovered. • AC26 supports deletion (AC26 WG1 Doc. 2). Australia Deletion from Appendix I Prop. 10 Southern white rhino Ceratotherium simum simum Kenya To amend the annotation for Ceratotherium simum simum as follows: “Ceratotherium simum simum (Only the populations of South Africa and Swaziland; all other populations are included in Appendix I. For the exclusive purpose of allowing international trade in live animals to appropriate and acceptable destinations and hunting trophies. Hunting trophies from South Africa and Swaziland shall be subject to a zero export quota until at least CoP18. All other specimens shall be deemed to be specimens of species included in Appendix I and the trade in them shall be regulated accordingly)” • Distribution: South Africa; smaller reintroduced populations in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland; small number may survive in Mozambique; introduced outside of known former range to Kenya, Uganda, Zambia. • Population: Ceratotherium simum: Near Threatened (IUCN 2012); wild population estimated to be 20,170 as of 31 Dec 2010 (IUCN). • Threats: Illegal hunting (poaching), compounded by misuse of legal trophy hunting in South Africa to export horns which are then illegally used for commercial purposes in importing States. • Trade: Between 1995 and 2011, 795 horns and 1,716 rhino hunting trophies were exported from South Africa (CITES Trade Database); importing countries reported importing 795 horns and 1,564 trophies from South Africa during same period; of these, 177 horns and 241 trophies were imported by Vietnam (2011 data appear incomplete and figures should be regarded as minimums). www.ssn.org SUPPORT, noting that the time frame for the proposed zero quota needs clarification • Current annotation provides a loophole through which horns from legally-hunted rhinos have been exported to Vietnam and elsewhere and allegedly used for commercial purposes (CoP15 Doc. 45.1 (Rev. 1) Annex); proposed amendment closes this loophole temporarily. • According to CoP16 Doc. 54.1 "Vietnam does acknowledge that whilst it has comprehensive legislation and penalties this is not enough to stop the determined trafficker… hunting trophies can present problems most noticeably once they have been imported and they suggest that the working group (or CoP) should consider and provide guidance on how to control and monitor rhino horn hunting trophies after their import". • The proponent states its intention is only to suspend export of trophies for a given period; proposed timeline would allow exporting and importing Parties to ensure that their laws, regulations, enforcement and other mechanisms can control illegal use of trophy horns after import. • Although South Africa has closed down some routes whereby rhino horn trophies have entered the illegal market and a number of foreigners (e.g. from Mozambique, Vietnam and Thailand) have been given heavy sentences, potential for abuse of the existing annotation still exists. Residents of EU Member States have been implicated in so-called pseudo-hunts (CoP16 Doc. 54.2). 5
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