Whoever designed the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) logo, with its elephant tusk protruding from a stylised version of the Convention's acronym, was prescient indeed. Ever since (and even before) the late 1980s, when the climactic 7th Conference of the Parties (COP) at Lausanne agreed to place the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) onto Appendix I, the species has loomed large at every meeting. Bangkok was no exception.
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