CITES celebrates a half-century

03/03/2023

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) celebrated its fiftieth birthday on March 3.

CITES was drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the World Conservation Union. The text of the Convention was agreed at a meeting of representatives of 80 countries in Washington DC on March 3, 1973. It entered into force on July 1, 1975.