12:05 PM - 12:30 PM. SUSTAINABILTY: Can you legally buy a tiger? Do's and dont's when acquiring objects that contain endangered species
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Sala Ospiti
| Thursday, November 7, 2024 |
| 12:05 - 12:30 |
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Wendy van Bohemen, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an internationalagreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plantsdoes not threaten the survival of the species.
- What if your museum is presented with a donation of an object containing animal or plant parts that are possibly protectedunder this CITES law?
- Or your museum wants to buy an object containing (parts) of these protected plants and animals?
- How do you know that an animal or plant part is protected by the CITES law?
- And what is needed to legally acquire such an object?
Those are questions that I would like to discuss in my presentation about this convention and the acquiring of objects thatare protected by this law.
