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Final listing

  • 14/12/2002

Besides the African elephant, other plants and animals too got their share of attention at the Convention on Illegal Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Chile. And it was a mixed bag of winners and losers.

The Japanese delegation harpooned its own suggestion on removing minke and Byrd's whales from appendix I. Japan's erroneous proposal made even traditional ally Norway shy away from lending support. The team returned empty-handed to Tokyo, both pride and budget dented.

The controversial proposal of big leaf mahogany made it to appendix II. But the Australian proposal to list the Patagonian toothfish

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