CITES Archives - Baird Maritime

June 15, 2023.

OPINION | Large predators, increasing predations and furtive agendas

Central government authorities have been busy working with and on behalf of radical NGOs for 40 years issuing dire warnings about imminent extinction...

September 7, 2022.

OPINION | Give the preservation role back to the communities

CITES (an International Convention/UN Enforcer) is now considering a proposal to list all 19 shark species of the family Carcharhinidae thereby placing...

May 27, 2022.

Europêche rejects Panama’s proposal to include blue shark in CITES Appendix II

The European fishing industry represented by Europêche urges the EU not to co-sign a Panamanian proposal to include blue shark in Appendix II of CITES. This...

May 18, 2022.

OPINION | How solid is the science behind CITES anyway?

Animal rights groups, with their allies in the Western environmental bureaucracies and their friends in related UN agencies, have long promoted the...

April 20, 2022.

OPINION | Killing of Orca for food off St. Lucia provokes woke storm

Why did the killing of a 900-pound killer whale (Orcinus orc) last month by fisherfolk from St. Lucia cause outrage? Certainly, the fisherfolk involved...

June 28, 2021.

OPINION | Hands off all sharks?

At CITES’ CoP-18, the assembled NGOs made sharks their iconic species of choice, knocking elephants off their number one spot. The question is, why...

July 7, 2020.

OPINION | Tuna price-fixing scandal implicates global NGOs

On Tuesday, Chris Lischewski, the driving force behind the creation of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), received a three-year...

March 7, 2017.

OPINION: Is CITES failing humanity?

Two meetings of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) will always be memorable to me because of...