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World Service,10 Nov 1994,13 mins

The Trade of Endangered Species

Global Concerns

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The work of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and the animals under discussion such as African elephants, Brazilian mahogony, the pearly mussel and the cave swiftlet, whose saliva is used to make bird's nest soup. Also on the programme hunting to extinction sound econonic practice and Lake Malawi's environmentally-friendly dugout canoes.

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