CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, is arguably the world's most successful international biodiversity agreement. First drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of IUCN (The World Conservation Union), its text was agreed at a meeting of representatives of 80 countries in Washington DC in 1973, and it came into force on 1 July 1975. It currently boasts 171 signatories, all committed to sustainable trade in wild animals and plants from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
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