Milena Sosa Schmidt, the CITES Secretariat’s Senior Scientific Programme Officer for Flora, speaks at the 52nd Session of the International Tropical Timber Council, Yokohama, 10 November 2016. Photo: K. Sato/ITTO
A partnership between ITTO and CITES—the treaty for regulating trade in endangered species—has brought about a “remarkable” shift in expectations in both range states and importing states about the listing of timber species, according to the CITES Secretariat’s Senior Scientific Programme Officer for Flora. Speaking at the 52nd Session of the International Tropical Timber Council in Yokohama on 10 November 2016, Milena Sosa Schmidt said the partnership had also had a wide range of other benefits.