The Convention of the United Nations for the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) approved the inclusion of 40 new species in a regime of international protection, such as the snowy owl, which appears in Harry Potter.
The decision was taken at the end of the COP15 session for migratory species in Campo Verde of Brazil, which gathered representatives from 132 countries and the European Union. It is one of the most important global meetings for the conservation of wildlife.
In the new list are also included a bird with a long beak that is threatened with extinction (Hudsonian godwit), the great hammerhead shark, while the list also includes terrestrial mammals such as the striped hyena. 49% of the species that have been recorded by the United Nations show a decrease of their population and almost ¼ is threatened with extinction worldwide.
Countries have a legal obligation to protect species that are threatened with extinction and to cooperate with other states of their range area.
The countries that participate in the Convention for Migratory Species (CMS) have a legal obligation to protect the species that are recorded as threatened with extinction, to preserve and restore their habitats, to prevent obstacles to migration and to cooperate with other states of their range area.
The destruction of habitats, overfishing and water pollution, from the Amazon to the Danube, threaten the very survival of hundreds of species, whose impressive journeys along the great rivers of the world pass largely unnoticed.
Source: France 24
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