However it warned much work needs to be done to stop the illegal and unsustainable trade driving some species into extinction.

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Traffic’s executive director Steven Broad says the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora was a very positive meeting, with important steps forward made on a whole range of wildlife trade issues,

He lists captive breeding, synthetic products, demand reduction, traceability, cybercrime and even corruption.

Broad says some important decisions were taken in Johannesburg this past fortnight: it’s now down to the governments who made them to ensure they are adequately implemented.

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