Marine protection on the agenda at Pacific meeting of CITES members

Samoa is playing play host to a regional meeting of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora this week. The gathering comes ahead of the global CITES conference in South Africa next month, and provides an opportunity to prepare an agenda on the most important issues facing the Pacific. Michael Donoghue, Adviser on Threatened and Migratory Species for SPREP, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program says regional concerns are centred on the protection of several important marine species.