CITES MEETING
November 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLA RESTRICTED trade in wool from captured wild vicuna in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile has been approved by a conference of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).The United Nations (UN) convention's members agreed in Santiago, Chile, to lift a ban in trading these small beasts "for the purpose of allowing international trade in wool sheared from live animals...bearing the label vicuna Argentina, Bolivia or Chile." This would be restricted to vicuna from the Argentine province of ...
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