Stand By Your Vote (CITES, Bangkok, Thailand)

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 (Shark Defenders). On Monday, March 11, 2013, CITES Committee I approved protections for five species of shark and two species of manta ray. The results of Committee I will head to plenary and will be approved in about 48 hours. There is a chance that opposing countries will move to reopen the vote and possibly overturn these protections. Shark Defenders, Shark Savers, WildAid, Manta Trust and Project Aware are working to keep this from happening, and we need your support. Please send an email to the delegates from the countries listed below asking them to stand by their vote. Clicking on the links will open an email message box addressed to the CITES delegate from that respective country with “Stand By Your Vote – Don’t Reopen CITES Shark Vote” in the subject line. Please write a quick message (or not, the subject line is enough) and hit send. We need governments to know that the world wants shark protections*.

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Click on the name of your country to send an email to your representative to CITES :

AFRICA :
Algeria Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Comoros Congo Côte d’Ivoire Dem Republic of Congo Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Lesotho Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mozambique Namibia Niger Sao Tome and Principe Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

ASIA :
Afghanistan Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Darussalam Cambodia China India Indonesia Iran Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Pakistan Philippines Qatar Republic of Korea Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand United Arab Emirates Viet Nam Yemen

OCEANIA :
Australia Fiji New Zealand Samoa Vanuatu

EUROPE :
Albania Armenia Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland Georgia Germany Hungary Iceland Ireland Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Moldova Romania Russian Federation Serbia Slovenia Spain Sweden Ukraine United Kingdom

LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN :
Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Belize Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama Peru Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela

NORTH AMERICA :
Canada Mexico United States of America

*Emails were taken from the CITES website. If the link doesn’t work, let us know in the comments or look it up.  Several CITES members did not have email addresses.

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