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Convention protects corals; not dogfish

News@nature.com rounds up key decisions from this week's conference on international trade in endangered species.

This year's meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) drew to a close today after more than a week of tough negotiations. Representatives from 171 member states haggled over some 40 proposed changes to regulations governing the international trade of plants and animals, resulting in changes to the treatment of many (see slideshow).


Posted by Nicola Jones on June 15, 2007
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You might want to edit your news story, especially the headline, after the last-minute secret vote on Friday that overturned the Corallium result.

Posted by: Katherine Curtis | June 18, 2007 05:21 PM

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