CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
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DOCUMENT BACKGROUND / CURRENT STATUS EFFECT OF DOCUMENT SSN VIEW<br />
Continued<br />
trade in rhinoceros parts; facilitate exchanges<br />
between rhino range States and horn consumer<br />
States; convene a joint <strong>CITES</strong> Ivory and Rhinoceros<br />
Enforcement Task Force; and report to SC61, 62<br />
and 63.<br />
• SC to consider the reports and determine what<br />
further actions are necessary.<br />
Continued<br />
• source, transit and destination countries should<br />
place the strongest level of restrictions on the<br />
international movement of rhino horns, commercial<br />
or otherwise, including a renewed focus on<br />
re-exports;<br />
• Parties consider amending RC 9.14 (Rev CoP15) to<br />
ensure that measures are put in place to restrict<br />
and control the movement of legally imported<br />
Appendix II rhino horn trophies;<br />
• Parties adopt legislation to authorize inspections to<br />
ensure that trophies remain in lawful possession,<br />
require that horns are accompanied by permits<br />
producible on request, and remain in the condition<br />
described in those permits;<br />
• Parties seek to improve legislation prohibiting<br />
international commercial trade in products labeled<br />
as, or purporting to contain, rhino parts and derivatives,<br />
and consider introducing national measures<br />
such as voluntarily prohibiting internal trade in<br />
such products, as provided for in RC 9.6 (Rev.);<br />
• Parties that have imported live rhinoceros [since<br />
2005] be invited to report on the status of the<br />
animals (births, deaths and movements), to SC65,<br />
SC66 and CoP17;<br />
• <strong>CoP16</strong> adopt a Decision calling for development<br />
and implementation of draft demand reduction<br />
principles (Annex), and that Parties report on experiences<br />
in addressing demand reduction, to enable<br />
recommendations to be made to SC65, SC66 and<br />
CoP17;<br />
• Decision 15.71 be retained, mutatis mutandis, and<br />
that <strong>CoP16</strong> adopt a Decision requiring Vietnam to<br />
report to SC65 and SC66 on measures it has taken<br />
to tackle illegal trade in rhino horn, including measures<br />
undertaken to regulate possession of rhino<br />
hunting trophies, and SC to make recommendations<br />
accordingly; and<br />
• SC Rhino WG continue its work.<br />
Continued<br />
• prohibit re-export of rhino horn except in limited<br />
circumstances;<br />
• restrict domestic movement of legally imported<br />
Appendix II rhino horn trophies; and<br />
• consider introducing national measures such as voluntarily<br />
prohibiting internal trade in rhino horn parts,<br />
derivatives and products.<br />
• SSN agrees that Decision 15.71 could be retained mutatis<br />
mutandis, but this will not be necessary if an appropriate<br />
Decision proposed in <strong>CoP16</strong> Doc 54.2 is adopted, with<br />
SSN's proposed amendments.<br />
• SSN urges the Parties to adopt a Decision recommending<br />
that Parties that have imported live rhinoceros [since<br />
2005] report on the status of the animals (births, deaths<br />
and movements), to SC65, SC66 and CoP17. It is critical<br />
that Parties are kept informed as to the status and location<br />
of imported live rhinos and Parties that have imported<br />
live rhinos should ensure that they are afforded a high<br />
level of security.<br />
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