Environmental organizations unite and sign a document calling on the European Commission and CITES to reject trade of Spix’s Macaw and Lear’s Macaw
Ms. Astrid Schomaker,Director Green Diplomacy & Multilateralism, DG Environment of the European CommissionAstrid.Schomaker@ec.europa.eu31 October 2023Re: Potential CITES Compliance Measures against the EUDear Ms. Schomaker,As you will be aware, the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade inEndangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is tasked with determining, at its upcomingmeeting in November (SC77), whether the EU is complying with CITES rules, which permit trade inAppendix I specimens only in exceptional circumstances and under particularly strict conditions. Theundersigned organizations