Speciesism and the Wildlife Trade: Who gets Listed, Downlisted and Uplisted in CITES?

Wildlife faces a number of threats due to human activity, including overexploitation from excessive and/or illegal trade. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is the main international legal instrument address such overexploitation. However, not all species threatened by trade are protected CITES, leading criticism that it an for preservation exploitation as opposed protection wildlife (Goyes Sollund 2016). This article explores whether CITES classifications can be said perpetuate speciesist thinking. We highlight which more likely receive analysing listed how some move between Appendices comparing this Union Conservation Nature’s (IUCN) traded wildlife. find species’ market value, charisma, survival status form complex set characteristics lead (or not) continual species, even though they facing extinction consumption.