CITES 2019 remembers Easter Sunday attack victims in SL

Delegates observe a minute of silence for the victims of the Sri Lanka terrorist attack on 21 April, where the conference was to take place, on the opening day of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) on 17 August, in Geneva. Specialists meet in Geneva from 17 to 28 August to try to tighten rules on trade in elephant ivory, rhino horns and other endangered animal and plant species amid growing alarm over accelerating extinctions – AFP