Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

  • CITES also known as the Washington Convention, is an international agreement between governments which entered into force on 1st July 1975 with its headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species.
  • The 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP18) took place from 17 - 28 August 2019, in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • CoP19 will be held in 2022 in Costa Rica.

Need for CITES

  • Widespread information about the endangered status of many prominent species, such as the tiger and elephants, might make ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content

Already a Member? Login here

Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Be an Annual Subscriber

Ecology & Environment