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CITES: protecting endangered species

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Subido el 9 de agosto de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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Commonly referred to by its acronym of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is a long-standing international agreement adopted in Washington in 1973, under the aegis of the United Nations. It has been in force since 1975. The 171 States (including the Member States of the European Union) who subscribe to this convention are committed to regulating international trade in wild animals and plants so as to prevent the threat of trade to species in danger of extinction. The European Union is an active participant. Filming was carried out in Zambia and Belgium. In Zambia, it shows the actions taken under CITES to prevent the destruction of the Nile crocodile and the African elephant populations: two CITES success stories.

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The Victoria Falls in southern Africa. This is Zambia's biggest tourist attraction, and it's not hard to see why. 00:00:00
Over 500 million litres of water cascade over their lip every minute, making this one of the world's greatest waterfalls. 00:00:09
Here, nature is king, with humans relegated to the role of awestruck onlookers. 00:00:17
But lower down the Zambezi, where the river runs less wildly, it's a different story. 00:00:23
Here, as in many other parts of the world, man and animals are in constant conflict for food, land and water. 00:00:29
It's an age-old struggle, but one that has intensified since the trade in wild species became a multi-billion-euro industry. 00:00:37
It's a new dawn for the Lower Zambezi National Park, a pristine wilderness, a short plane ride from the capital Lusaka. 00:00:46
Today, the park is teeming with wildlife. 00:00:54
Hippos wallow in the water, impalas streak along the riverbank, crocodiles bask in the sun, and zebra dart between bushes. 00:00:57
But it hasn't always been like this. In the late 1970s, there were 100,000 elephants in Zambia. 00:01:08
A decade later, this figure had been slashed to 10,000 because of rampant poaching for ivory. 00:01:15
The elephant was almost extinct when the Lower Zambezi National Park was founded in 1983, 00:01:22
and poaching remained rife throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. 00:01:28
Bouaza Chizoua has been a tourist guide here for 11 years and has witnessed the extraordinary changes the park has undergone. 00:01:33
As I came here in 1996, we'd been seeing elephants, maybe 50, and they were very, very skittish and aggressive. 00:01:40
We used to try to approach them charging and doing that, which now is completely different from that time. 00:01:49
Now you'd stop to a big breeding head of elephant, you'd be watching them for hours, hours and hours, 00:01:56
which for us is good and that's the sign of showing that poaching has gone down. 00:02:03
One of the reasons for the dramatic recovery in the local elephant population, 00:02:11
there are now between 3,000 and 5,000 in the park, was the international ban on the ivory trade that came into force in 1989. 00:02:15
The ban, which was agreed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, 00:02:22
has helped starve poachers of their lucrative market. 00:02:28
But rules are worthless if they're not properly implemented. 00:02:31
This is the role of the Zambian Wildlife Authority, ZAWA, 00:02:36
whose job is to police the country's national parks and regulate the trade in endangered species. 00:02:39
Today, guards from ZAWA are searching for suspected poachers with the aid of local NGO Conservation Lower Zambezi. 00:02:45
The report we received was that the gunshots or the suspected poaching activity was somewhere in this area here. 00:02:53
Sierra One, Sierra One, Line One. 00:03:03
Line One, Line One, Sierra One. 00:03:05
This time it's a false alert, but poachers are still... 00:03:07
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9 de agosto de 2007 - 13:21
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