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Annex AIT

CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA

SEVENTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES

Lausanne (Switzerland), 9 20 October 1989

AMENDMENT TO APPENDIX I OF THE CONVENTION

PROPOSAL

Transfer of Loxodonta

africana from

Appendix II to Appendix I of the Convention.

8.

PROPONENT

Somali Democratic Republic

SUPPORTING STATEMENT

C.

1

Taxonomy

WILDLIFE

DEPART

AANGE

NACIONAL

לס אל?

11. Class: Mammalia

12. Order:

Proboscidea

13. Family: Elephantidae

14. Species: Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797)

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includes subspecies L.a.africana the savanna elephant, and L.a.cyclotis the forest elephant. The pygmy elephant (L.a. pumilio) is generally not accepted es a valid subspecies.

15. Common names:

English African elaphant French Elephant d'Afrique Spanish - Elefante africanc Kiswahili - Tembo, Ndovu German

Afrikanischer Elefant

Afrikaans Olifant

16. Code numbers: ISIS 5301415001002001001