It’s been a strange week for conservation efforts at the Conference on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Pessimists may argue world leaders have clearly demonstrated their lack of concern for our friends in the plant and animal kingdoms. Optimists will say some progress is better than none.
Either way you want to look at it, economic concerns have dominated the event with coral, sharks, polar bears, and Atlantic bluefin tuna among the species that failed to win protection support from delegates.
