Treaties for biodiversity

Question 1

What does CITES stand for?

Answer 1

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

Question 2

What is CITES?

Answer 2

This is an international agreement to make sure that trade in wildlife specimens does not affect its survival.

Question 3

What are CITES aims?

Answer 3

• Regulate and monitor species trade
• Make sure trade doesn’t endanger any species
• Make sure trade wild plants aren’t trade commercially
• Allow certain artificially propagated plants to be traded
• Make sure that certain more endangered wild species are traded.

Question 4

How does smuggling affect CITES?

Answer 4

Smuggling means that endangered or on demand animals will still be unprotected and moved which are hard to keep track of.

Question 5

What is the Rio Convention on Biological diversity?

Answer 5

This is an international convention signed at the 1992 Rio Earth summit by 140 leaders to promote sustainable development.

Question 6

What are the Rio Convention on Biological diversity aims?

Answer 6

• Conservation of biological diversity
• Sustainable use of its components
• Appropriate shared access to genetic resources
• Appropriate sharing and transfer of scientific knowledge and technologies
• Fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the use of genetic resources.

Question 7

What type of conservation does the Rio Convention on Biological diversity use?

Answer 7

In situ and needs different countries to cooperate to be more sustainable and increase biodiversity

Question 8

What do zoos, botanic gardens and seed banks do internationally?

Answer 8

They usually are international and will trade their animals to increase biodiversity and help animals get situated where needed

Question 9

What do local governments do?

Answer 9

They try to boost their local biodiversity such.