Introduction
For CITES CoP19, IWMC ?? World Conservation
Trust has adopted a new approach to its usual recommendations on Proposals and
Documents submitted for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its
19th meeting to be held in Panama City, Panama, from 14 to 25 November 2022.
I addition to regular members of the IWMC team,
a total of 7 experts from different perspectives of the Conservation World were
consulted and participated in the elaboration of IWMC's recommendations. For
aquatic species and related documents, IWMC's recommendations relied entirely
on the outcome of the Panel of Experts organised by the FAO under the Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU), signed in 2006, between the Food and Agricultural
Organisation of the United Nations and the Secretariat of the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). This
MoU is a tool to maintain the credibility of CITES as a science-based
organization.
The format of the recommendations has also been
modified in order to supply compelling arguments to support the recommendations,
when requested by the nature of the proposal and/or document. The fact that
IWMC addresses only some of the proposals and documents in its
recommendations is dictated by our belief that these proposals and documents
deal with fundamental principles involved in CITES structure, activities and
evolution.
We hope these recommendations will be useful in
your deliberations.
Please refer to the attached PDF for the table of recommendations.
