covers 36,000 species of plants and animals, including their products and derivatives.
The CITES Convention is a multilateral agreement whose aim is to ensure that international trade (export, re-export, import and introduction from the sea) in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. Its aim is therefore to ensure the conservation of wildlife, as an integral part of the global ecosystem on which all life depends.
To this end, the CITES Convention subjects the international movement of regulated specimens (so called “CITES-listed species”) to a particularly strict regulation, represented by a system of controls and authorisations/permits that aims at ensuring the traceability of such species, and varies according to the degree of protection granted to each of them.
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