https://www.oliverstringham.com/tags/conservation-policy/ Recent content in conservation policy on Oliver C. Stringham Hugo -- gohugo.io en Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.oliverstringham.com/publications/us-market-non-cites-wildlife/ Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.oliverstringham.com/publications/us-market-non-cites-wildlife/ CITES regulates trade in a subset of at-risk species, but most wildlife imported into the U.S. isn’t covered by the treaty at all. We compared U.S. imports of CITES-listed and non-CITES-listed live wildlife and found non-listed imports involve 3.6 times more species and 11 times the trade quantity, exposing a major gap in international trade monitoring.