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International Expert Workshop on CITES Non-Detriment Findings
Cancun, Mexico, November 17th to 22nd, 2008 |
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Background informationIUCN Checklist The proposal of having this Workshop was first raised and discussed during the XI Annual Meeting of Canada/Mexico/United States Trilateral Committee for Wildlife & Ecosystem Conservation and Management (2006). After being well received during the joint meeting of the Plants and Animals Committees (PC16/AC22, July 2006) and at the 54th meeting of the Standing Committee (October, 2006), a formal proposal was presented by Mexico and Canada (CoP14 Doc. 35) at The Hague (June, 2007) and approved through Decisions 14.49, 14.50 and 14.51 by the 14th Conference of the Parties. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. Because the trade on them crosses borders between countries, the effort to regulate it requires international cooperation to safeguard certain species from over-exploitation.
CITES Scientific Authorities of exporting countries, and sometimes also from importing countries, are continually challenged to determine whether a particular export will be detrimental to the survival of a species and to define which information and parameters are relevant to determine this. Therefore, it is important that the Parties be provided with some basic criteria and guidelines, as well as documented methodologies, in order to facilitate the formulation of Non-Detriment Findings (NDFs), and to make more complete and scientifically sound the evaluations required to improve the implementation of the Convention. IUCN ChecklistIn order to attend the above mentioned need, the IUCN - The World Conservation Union, through its Species Survival Commission (SSC), assisted by the CITES Secretariat, Parties and other organizations, convened two workshops in order to develop some practical assistance for Scientific Authorities; these resulted in very useful and comprehensive materials. IUCN/SSC Guidance for CITES Scientific Authorities – Checklist to assist in making non-detriment findings for Appendix II exports:
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Answers to CITES Notification to the Parties No. 2007/032Following-up with Conference of the Parties Decision 14.49, the CITES Secretariat issued the Notification No. 2007/032 where, on behalf of the Steering Committee, invited exporting Parties to provide information about the use of the IUCN Checklist or other methodologies employed to formulate NDFs. Answers to the above mentioned Notification were sent by:
Answers to CITES Notification to the Parties No. 2008/044Following-up with Conference of the Parties Decision 14.103, the Secretariat issued Notification to the Parties No. 2008/044 on implementation of listings for shark species focused specifically on obtaining from Parties´ Scientific and Fishery Authorities case studies on the development of non-detriment findings for shark species. The Secretariat was directed to collate and summarize these for provision to the NDF Workshop, and four replies were received.
Regional and species-specific workshops and exercisesFollowing the above mentioned efforts and as recommended in the IUCN Checklist document itself, some regional and species-specific workshops and exercises have been developed on technical and biological aspects of making NDFs:
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Stock Assessment Approach for the Napoleon Fish, 
Draft Non Detriment Finding for the purpose of proposed export of 
International Workshop on CITES Implementation for 
First Mesoamerican workshop: current status and harmonization of procedures for the 
Non-Detriment Report under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora regarding the export of 
CITES Training Workshop for Scientific Authorities in the CITES Region of Central and South America and the Caribbean (Managua, Nicaragua - September 16th-19th, 2002).