Nepal is an accessory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Fauna and Flora (CITES), the convention with a dual nature of conservation and sustainable use of wildlife products and governing illegal wildlife trade. It took Nepal 42 years to form a dedicated “CITES Act 2017” after official treaty accession. This project particularly aims to understand the evolution of CITES and its effectiveness on implications for curbing illegal wildlife trade status focused on Felidae species in Nepal. Since several global pandemics, including Covid, are partly due to wildlife trade, this project is timely at the dawn of 50 years of CITES.

One day workshop was organized as a part of the project. The details of the workshop can be found in the link.