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Article: Nepali Wildlife Experts Laud Ban on Red Panda Trade
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 29, 1995
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Nepali wildlife experts have lauded an international move to ban
the trade of red panda, a rare animal found in South Asia's high
altitudes of the Himalayas, a local newspaper reported today.
The Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species
(CITES), the international body governing the trade of wild animals
and plants, recently transferred the red panda from its appendix two
to appendix one, the Kathmandu Post here said today.
Species deemed to be endangered, as rhino and tiger, are put under
CIETS' appendix one which completely bars trade in such animals and
their body parts.
CITES faced numerous challenges ...