Wild fauna conservation: IUCN-CITES match is required

Abstract

Abstract The purpose of this letter is to evaluate efficiency of wild fauna conservation at the global level. This vitally important ecological indicator is measured by the number of threatened fauna species and shows rapid raise during the last 20 years. This letter gives really New and Important result/ finding and constructive solution related to the Global problem of wild fauna conservation. A big part of threatened fauna species remains unprotected worldwide due to inefficient management between the principal conservation organizations IUCN and CITES. They have been established a long time (decades) ago, but CITES covers only part of all threatened fauna species in IUCN red list (e.g. 76,5% of mammals and only 7,7% of amphibians in 2017). Therefore a big part of threatened fauna species remains unprotected by CITES (i.e. 23,5% of mammals and 92,3% of amphibians in 2017). The threatened species uncovered by CITES may be hunted and traded and increase the total number of species exposed to extinction. Therefore, better coordination/teamwork between CITES and IUCN is required to cover all threatened species by CITES for more effective biodiversity conservation.