Title
Endangered harvest
Author(s)
Robinson, J. G., and J. Thorbjarnarson
Published
2000
Publisher
Nature
Abstract
For the current meeting of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; 10–20 April) in Nairobi, the Cuban government has submitted proposals to allow a small number of hawksbill turtle shells to be harvested from Cuban waters and exported to Japan. A CITES Appendix I listing has since 1976 banned the trade of this turtle's beautiful shell, which is prized for its use in ornaments and inlays, on the basis that the turtle populations were affected by international trade and that the species was threatened with extinction.
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