Albi Modise on the 17th CITES Conference
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Channel: SABC News · 2016 · News & Politics
Governments, conservationists and environmental NGOs have all descended on Johannesburg for CITES. President Jacob Zuma will open the conference at the Sandton Convention Centre tomorrow. The official name is the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora or CITES. CITES is a treaty between governments to protect wild animals and plants against over-exploitation through commercial trade. And South Africa was one of the first signatories to CITES in 1975. For more we are now joined by the spokesperson for the Department of Environmental Affairs, Albi Modise. For more news, visit: http://www.sabc.co.za/news
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