Gaps in CITES policy undermine conservation of threatened species by providing loopholes for illegal trade

Journal Article Gaps in CITES policy undermine conservation of threatened species by providing loopholes for illegal trade Get access Patrick O Waeber, Patrick O Waeber University of Applied Sciences Bern, BernETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland E-mail: patrick.waeber@bfh.ch https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3229-0124 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark W Roberts, Mark W Roberts ECO Policy Advisors, Stow, Massachusetts, United States https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4668-7544 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Derek Schuurman, Derek Schuurman located in London, England, United Kingdom https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0523-5672 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vincent Nijman, Vincent Nijman Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England, the United Kingdom https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5600-4276 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar George Wittemyer, George Wittemyer Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, the United States https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1640-5355 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles V Barber, Charles V Barber World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, the United States Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John L Innes, John L Innes Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7076-1222 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Porter P Lowry, II, Porter P Lowry, II Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, the United StatesInstitut de Systématique, Évolution, et Biodiversité, at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle at the SorbonneCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8047-5019 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lucienne Wilmé Lucienne Wilmé World Resources Institute Africa's Madagascar Program and with the Missouri Botanical Garden's Madagascar Research and Conservation Program, Antananarivo, Madagascar E-mail: lucienne.wilme@wri.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8344-1957 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar BioScience, biad040, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad040 Published: 28 June 2023 Article history Received: 06 April 2023 Revision received: 13 April 2023 Accepted: 20 April 2023 Published: 28 June 2023