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Consensus classifications are crucial for conservation: How CITES utilizes checklists

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an end‐user of the consensus classifications and checklists produced by global initiatives such as the World Flora Online (WFO). This paper provides a brief background on CITES and the impact of classification and nomenclature changes on the CITES processes and enforcement of CITES regulations, with a focus on plants. The importance of global consensus classifications for CITES‐listed plants is highlighted and the ways in which CITES utilizes checklists are illustrated. The WFO and especially the Taxonomic Expert Networks can, and already do, make huge contributions towards the production of checklists for CITES.

Source: Taxon

DOI: 10.1002/tax.13348

Author: Ronell R. Klopper

Institutions: South African National Biodiversity Institute, University of Pretoria

Language: English

Topic: Botany and Plant Ecology Studies

Subfield: Plant Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,630