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DOCUMENT BACKGROUND / CURRENT STATUS EFFECT OF DOCUMENT SSN VIEW 70 Continued Continued Continued • Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana have CoPapproved export quotas of 150, 50 and 5 cheetahs, respectively, since CoP8. • CoP12 approved registration of two commercial cheetah captive breeding operations in South Africa. • encourage Parties to provide reports concerning all detected illegal trade in cheetah specimens to SC65. ficking of 70 cheetahs,. • SSN urges Parties to support the draft Decision and to amend it to include direction to SC that it consider the results of the study and reports, and agree to actions to address identified problems. 52. Leopard quotas Cop16 Doc. 52 • Leopard, Panthera pardus, is on Appendix I • RC 10.14 (Rev. CoP14) on Quotas for leopard hunting trophies and skins for personal use: • establishes annual export quotas for leopard skin hunting trophies and for personal use for eleven range States; • recommends that importing Parties approve permits if skins are from States with quotas; • creates a skin tagging system; and • provides that increased or new quotas must be approved by the CoP in accordance with RC 9.21 (Rev. CoP13). • Prepared by Botswana, South Africa and USA. • Proposes amendments to RC 10.14 (Rev. CoP14) to eliminate different interpretations by, inter alia: • clarifying that quotas in the Resolution are not export quotas but are harvest quotas for a calendar year (defined as 1 January to 31 December); • noting that skins may exported in year of harvest or thereafter; • specifying requirements for tags attached to skins in trade (e.g. self-locking, non-reusable, tamperresistant, heat resistant); • clarifying information to be included on the tag and that this information also be recorded on the CITES permit; • clarifying what to do if the original tags are lost, damaged or removed from skins; • recommending Parties accept skin imports if accompanied by permits and tags in accordance with the Resolution; • recommending authorites destroy unused tags at end of each year; and • recommending Secretariat not include leopard quotas in table of national export quotas because they are harvest quotas (not export quotas) and this creates confusion. SUPPORT • SSN urges Parties to support the proposed amendments because they will enhance implementation and enforcement of the Convention. 53. Elephants 53.1 Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants Cop16 Doc. 53.1 • RC10.10 (Rev. CoP15), on Trade in elephant specimens, requires Secretariat to provide a report at each CoP on information collected by the Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) program. • An article, adapted from CoP15 Doc 44.2, on Monitoring of illegal hunting in elephant range States, was published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS) in September 2011. • Provides an analysis of data, including 8,575 records of elephant carcasses between 2002 and the end of 2011 at 49 MIKE sites in 27 African range States; states that analysis will be updated to include data through end of June 2012 before CoP16 commences. • No analysis for Asian MIKE sites is presented due to a lack of data. Continued SUPPORT IN PART / OPPOSE IN PART • SSN encourages the Parties to direct the SC to oversee a full independent review of MIKE. • SSN urges Parties to oppose expansion of MIKE to other species without full details regarding levels of funding required and its long-term sustainability. • Given unprecedented levels of elephant poaching, SSN is concerned by the suggestion, in para 29, that “in order Continued
DOCUMENT BACKGROUND / CURRENT STATUS EFFECT OF DOCUMENT SSN VIEW Continued Continued 53.2 Monitoring of illegal trade in ivory and other elephant specimens • Data indicate ongoing increases in illegal killing elephants since 2006. 2011 data indicate the highest level of poaching since MIKE began in 2002 and is a statistically significant increase from 2010. • States, “the number of elephants being killed annually at African MIKE sites in recent years is likely to run into the tens of thousands.” • The Proportion of Illegally Killed Elephants (PIKE) is a measurement of relative poaching levels that is calculated as the number of illegally killed elephants found divided by the total number of elephant carcasses encountered. Latest PIKE levels are now above 0.5 for each region (East, West, Central and Southern), indicating that more than half of the elephants found dead have been illegally killed. The report further indicates that elephant populations are therefore likely to be in net decline across the continent. • Indicates that there is no evidence to suggest that levels of illegal killing either increased or decreased as a direct result of CoP decisions to trade in ivory, and that the only way to test relationships between CITES decisions and illegal killing would be for several decisions to take place in a time series, “such as different ivory sales at different points in time”. • States that because an article about MIKE has been published in a scientific journal, “…the MIKE analytical methods have therefore now undergone the formal scientific peer-review process”. • Requests the CoP to note the report. to test for relations between CITES decisions relating to the ivory trade and poaching trends, there would need to be several decisions in the time series, such as different ivory sales at different points in time”. SSN strongly urges Parties to reject this suggestion as a rationale for approving any future ivory sales. • SSN recommends that Parties adopt a Decision directing the Secretariat to issue a Notification: • reminding Asian elephant range States of their obligations under RC 10.10 (Rev. CoP 15) to promptly submit information to MIKE and ETIS; and • urging Asian elephant range States to submit proper and timely reports to MIKE and ETIS on illegal killing of elephants and illegal trade in ivory, live elephants and other elephant specimens. 53.2.1 Report of the Secretariat Cop16 Doc.53.2.1 • RC10.10 (Rev. CoP15), on Trade in elephant specimens: • directs Secretariat to provide a report to each CoP on information collected by the Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) program; and • requests submission of a report to each CoP on data held in the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS) managed and operated by TRAFFIC. Continued • Complements the MIKE and ETIS reports and provides a general overview of enforcement matters affecting elephants. • Regarding armed conflicts and large-scale elephant poaching: • notes that “in addition to the information received through MIKE and ETIS, several significant incidents of elephant poaching and related illegal trade in www.ssn.org Continued SUPPORT • SSN recommends that Parties support recommendations and draft Decisions in this document; CITES must respond urgently to the increase in elephant poaching and illegal trade in elephant ivory. • SSN urges Parties to ensure that all range States are invited to take part in the CITES Ivory Enforcement Task Force proposed by the Secretariat and recommends that Continued 71
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