In early October, the triennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), the world's largest
wildlife trade conference, granted the African grey parrot the highest level of international protection, including the prohibition of international commercial trade of the animal.
Dr Jepson's view contrasts with that held by the leading conservation groups who pressed governments worldwide to make illegal
wildlife trade a more serious crime at the 2014 London Conference on Illegal Wildlife T
trade a more serious crime at the 2014 London
Conference on Illegal
Wildlife TradeTrade.