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End of September / beginning of October 2016: Africa - Ivory trade. The conference on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which opened in Johannesburg on 24 September 2016, rejected the applications of Namibia and Zimbabwe aiming to allow them to sell their ivory stocks. The request of Swaziland to sell rhino horns was also rejected. On the other hand, the protection of several species, including sharks and manta rays which have been added to the Appendix II of CITES, has been strengthened. With a loss of 110,000 units, the amount of elephants in Africa has declined by a third over the past decade. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and Gabon are the countries which are the most affected by poaching. Every day, three rhinos are killed for their horns. The treaty of the CITES, signed by 182 countries and the European Union, entered into force in 1975. It protects, to varying degrees, 5,600 animal species and 30,000 plants.The Appendix I of CITES lists endangered species whose trade is banned, the Appendix II the species whose trade is regulated, and the Appendix III the species which are protected by a country that has requested assistance from the other members.  Every three years, the delegates of the Member States meet to discuss the trade restrictions in this matter. The next conference of CITES will take place in 2019 in Sri Lanka.    Links • the namibian • namibia press agency (nampa) • namibia economist Same category in a different destination Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Balearic islands (Spain) Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda (UK) Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia-Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Canary islands (Spain) Cape Verde Cayman Islands (UK) Chad Chile China Colombia Congo Corsica (France) Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Crete (Greece) Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador - Galápagos Egypt El Salvador Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Guadeloupe, St. Barths, & St-Martin Guam (USA) Guatemala Guernsey/Jersey Guinea Guyana Haiti Hawaii (USA) Honduras Hong Kong (China) Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Korea (south) Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Libya Lithuania Luxembourg Macau (China) Macedonia Madeira and Azores (Portugal) Malawi Malaysia Mali Malta Martinique (France) Mauritania Mexico Moldova Monaco Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Netherlands Netherlands Antilles & Aruba New Caledonia (France) New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico (USA) Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts & Nevis Saint Lucia Samoa Sardinia (Italy) Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia and Montenegro Sicily (Italy) Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa Spain Sudan & South Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Togo Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turks and Caicos (UK) Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands, Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe