China and CITES: Strange Bedfellows or Willing Partners?

A. Whitfort
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Abstract Using the lens of international norm dynamics, this article explores increasing contestation around the global norm to protect endangered species from over exploitation. Focusing on China’s recent announcement that it may lift its 25-year moratorium on the use of rhino horn and tiger bone in traditional Chinese medicine, and calls from some African states for increased international trade in rhino, this article explores current threats to the norm. As international discourse around the norm moves from debates about its applicability to fundamental challenges to its validity, the norm is weakening. To protect the norm, it has become necessary to adopt less traditional approaches to the interpretation of the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) by member states. Going forward, CITES debates about how best to protect endangered species should emphasise both conservation and animal welfare concerns.
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中国与《濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约》:同床异梦还是自愿合作?
摘要本文从国际规范动态的角度,探讨了围绕保护濒危物种免受过度开发的全球规范的日益激烈的争论。中国最近宣布可能会解除对犀牛角和虎骨在中药中使用的25年禁令,以及一些非洲国家呼吁增加犀牛国际贸易,本文重点探讨了目前对这一规范的威胁。随着围绕该规范的国际讨论从对其适用性的辩论转向对其有效性的根本性挑战,该规范正在削弱。为了保护这一规范,成员国有必要采取不那么传统的方式来解释《联合国濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约》(CITES)。展望未来,CITES关于如何最好地保护濒危物种的辩论应该同时强调保护和动物福利问题。
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期刊介绍: Drawing upon the findings from island biogeography studies, Norman Myers estimates that we are losing between 50-200 species per day, a rate 120,000 times greater than the background rate during prehistoric times. Worse still, the rate is accelerating rapidly. By the year 2000, we may have lost over one million species, counting back from three centuries ago when this trend began. By the middle of the next century, as many as one half of all species may face extinction. Moreover, our rapid destruction of critical ecosystems, such as tropical coral reefs, wetlands, estuaries, and rainforests may seriously impair species" regeneration, a process that has taken several million years after mass extinctions in the past.
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