Bangkok, Nov 28, 2025 (AFP) - Over 70 shark, ray species win new wildlife trade protections

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2025-11-28

The world's top wildlife trade organisation increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a move conservationists hailed as a "historical win". Signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) backed increased trade restrictions on species from whale sharks to manta rays at talks in Uzbekistan. Conservationists and experts have warned that shark and ray sp......

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