Link to CMS report:
https://www.cms.int/sites/default/files/document/cms_cop13_doc.24_rev.1_review-conservation-status-migratory-species_e.pdf

73 per cent of Appendix I and 48 per cent of Appendix II species of the Convention on Migratory Species are diminishing, it says, with many being traded

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By Ishan Kukreti
Last Updated: Monday 17 February 2020
The vicuna, the Andean camelid species whose parts have been traded by India according to the report. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The population of many species protected under the United Nation Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals’ (CMS) was on the decline despite being on the appendices of the Convention, a document has said.

Titled Review of the conservation status of migratory species, the document read:

The analysis of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List Category for CMS-listed species shows that the conservation status of 87 per cent of species listed on Appendix I and