Trade ban defeated

摘要

A key guardian of endangered species chose big business over biodiversity this week when it voted not to regulate trade in sharks and a tuna.rnThe Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) limits trade in threatened plants or animals. At its three-yearly summit in Doha, Qatar, member countries voted to restrict the trade of some frogs and a salamander as pets, and to maintain a ban on trading ivory. But proposals to restrict the trade of Atlantic bluef in tuna, 31 species of coral and seven out of eight species of shark were all voted down.