CITES@50

A project examining the effectiveness of #CITES as it approaches 50 years old. Represented by @DanChallender @UniofOxford.

[Amy Hinsley @orchiddelirium]

Story on our new preprint looking at 50 years of wildlife-related patents, including for rhino, pangolin and sturgeon. We found increasing patent-filing (even for illegal products) and diversification of product types. Still in peer review but here: https://t.co/nNsAQhuC91

[Francis Vorhies @FrancisVorhies]

South Africa's revised game meat strategy could literally be a game changer for Africa’s #WildlifeEconomy.

[Michelle Anagnostou, PhD @MichAnagnostou]

@CITES @JohnEScanlon @mccordonier @ivonnehiguero @DanChallender @elianeubalijoro @arharrington1 @CIFOR_ICRAF @intsustainlaw @envwaterloo @mwgehring @pstoett @Lauterpacht_Ctr @UVicLaw @bennettinst @BalsillieSIA @CITESat50

[Michelle Anagnostou, PhD @MichAnagnostou]

📢Interested in wildlife trade law and policy & global sustainable development? Join us for "@CITES as a Tool for Sustainable Development" virtual book launch & legal roundtable with world-class experts!

🗓️Time: 4-6PM BST, October 19

🌎Register for free: https://t.co/rrFmk73E4k

[Amy Dickman 🦁 @amydickman.bsky.social @AmyDickman4]

This is getting into proper conspiracy theories!

[Amy Dickman 🦁 @amydickman.bsky.social @AmyDickman4]

Fantastic but damning thread by @Nikolaj_Bi - definitely time to write more up on the insane misinformation & policy failures around this campaign

[Prof Adam Hart 🦏 @AdamHartScience]

This is both wrong and defamatory- it is not made by hunters, and it links to a preprint of a data paper that supports all figures. @CitysFElephants - you need to delete this nonsense

[Dan Challender @DanChallender]

@knowmiun @CitysFElephants @HSIUKorg @ClaireHSI @RishiSunak @RobRobbEdwards @LabourAnimals @ConservativeAWF @PeterEgan6 @domdyer70 @_AnimalAdvocate @ProtectWldlife @AmyDickman4 @AdamHartScience @dilysroe @mplsoxford @OxfordBiology @UniofOxford @oxmartinschool @WildCRU_Ox @ICCS_updates @CITES @IUCNRedList Yes it’s a pre-print. We can have confidence in the data. The authors have decades of collecting, curating, and analysing such data.

[Prof Adam Hart 🦏 @AdamHartScience]

@HiiRobert @CitysFElephants It would help if you put the actual address in the poster in to a browser. When you can it will lead you here.
https://t.co/6oUenWZm0F

[Dan Challender @DanChallender]

@knowmiun @CitysFElephants @HSIUKorg @ClaireHSI @RishiSunak @RobRobbEdwards @LabourAnimals @ConservativeAWF @PeterEgan6 @domdyer70 @_AnimalAdvocate @ProtectWldlife @AmyDickman4 @AdamHartScience @dilysroe @mplsoxford @OxfordBiology @UniofOxford @oxmartinschool @WildCRU_Ox @ICCS_updates @CITES @IUCNRedList Try here. Maybe so many people downloading it seeking evidence https://t.co/OwSNoK0iJo.

[Will Owen @WilliamJohnOwen]

@DanChallender @AdamHartScience @HiiRobert @CitysFElephants For sure

[Conservation Namibia 🇳🇦 @ConservationNa1]

@HiiRobert @AdamHartScience @CitysFElephants Poster's source: https://t.co/SJPPWU5ljB

[Dan Challender @DanChallender]

#TrophyHunting. A🧵. The UK's Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill will have its 2nd reading in the Lords on Friday. The rationale assumes that legal hunting for trophies threatens many species. The UK Government says the bill will protect ~7000 species. We investigated 1/n

[Dan Challender @DanChallender]

#TrophyHunting. A🧵at end of week in which Hunting Trophies (Import Prohib'n) Bill was discussed in @UKHouseofLords. Lobby groups continue to campaign for bill as drafted incl. @BornFreeFDN @HSIUKorg @HSIGlobal @FourPawsUK @CBTHunting based largely on misinformation 1/8

[African Wildlife Economy Institute @WildlifeEconomy]

Exciting day with Prof. Kennedy Dzama visiting our stand at #AfricanBiotradeFestival.

FairWild standards, wild products, and amazing African wild proteins - a testament to the booming #wildlifeeconomy!

[Amy Dickman 🦁 @amydickman.bsky.social @AmyDickman4]

@HsaChair @DanChallender @natalieben @UniofOxford @dilysroe @AdamHartScience You don't seem to understand science. It's literally framed around the 95% probability of things happening. If people talk in absolutes it's a red flag to me. But presumably you've seen 'hard facts' that this ban will support conservation - can you share them?

[African Wildlife Economy Institute @WildlifeEconomy]

We're thrilled to be at the #AfricanBiotradeFestival!

🌿 Join us at the AWEI & @FairWild stand in the exhibitors' section to champion sustainable harvesting of wild species across Africa.

More info: https://t.co/tmBS90RLXu

#WildlifeEconomy

[Amy Dickman 🦁 @amydickman.bsky.social @AmyDickman4]

Ok I lied, last post about this topic for now, I promise!! Getting on a plane so that might stop me! 😄 https://t.co/ioXHHjilQ5

[Prof Adam Hart 🦏 @AdamHartScience]

Hugely disingenuous of @BornFreeFDN to frame this the way they have.
The "highly contested" information was peer reviewed science. The "hunting advocates" are independent scientists advocating evidence based approaches. Shameful even by BF tactics 🤦
https://t.co/uOIWzGJXcK

[Resource Africa @africa_resource]

For anyone who wants to know what was said in the @UKHouseofLords debate last night, but couldn't watch, here is the full transcript. The Lords wanting to amend the Bill had stats and facts to back them up. Those supporting it had weak generalisations. https://t.co/ZrGlwnPRS0