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Celebrate from CITES with Alejandra Goyenechea, our Senior International Counsel. The historical glass frogs proposal was just adopted by consensus, further proving international support for conserving biological diversity.

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Alejandra Goyenechea: We’re here in Panama and we’ve been here for almost ten days and trying to support the countries that submitted the proposal for a listing glass frogs in Appendix Two.

(Postcards from Panama intro)

So we were really nervous because the formal European Union position was not to be in support of this proposal. This proposal was defeated by the EU three years ago and now three years … Continue

Learn about protecting all 21 species of horned lizards with Juan Carlos from our Mexico program at the CITES convention in Panama City.

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Hi, I’m Juan Carlos Cantú. I’m with Defenders of Wildlife in Mexico. But right now I’m in Panama City at the CITES convention.

Well, today, what we saw were two proposals, one presented by the United States for one of the species of horned lizards in the U.S. that is also found in Mexico. And another proposal by Mexico for all 21 species of horned lizards. You can find them in Mexico, the United States, … Continue