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World Wildlife Trade Report
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- The first-ever World Wildlife Trade Report was released at the 19th Conference of Parties to CITES held at Panama City.
- It is the first COP to CITES to be held in the region since 2002.
- 3.5 million CITES shipments were reported in direct trade by exports between 2011 and 2020.
- This accounts for 1.3 billion individual organisms and 279 million kg of products reported by weight.
- Asia and Europe are the top exporters and importers of wildlife trade.
- Asia accounted for 37 per cent of export transactions and 31 per cent of import transactions.
- Asia and Africa account for the highest proportion of the global export value.
- The annual revenue generated by the global legal trade in wildlife (CITES and non-CITES) is around 220 billion USD.
- Across all animal commodities, the export of reptiles and fish accounted for over 72 per cent of the average annual value of global CITES-listed exports.
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