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Sep 11, 2026
SandraHOST
You mentioned that one in three parrot species are at risk, and there are so many that are endangered or close to extinction.
SandraHOST
And I know CITES does a really good job of updating and listing on their website which ones, how endangered they are.
SandraHOST
But for somebody who's listening and they don't really know that so many parrot species are at risk, can you make that like real for us? What is driving it? What is causing all of these parrot species to be endangered and at risk?
Erin KatznerGUEST
Yeah, that's a great question.
Adam WickensGUEST
But in the United States, you have to think too, like California has more people than Canada.
Adam WickensGUEST
So your market is much more robust and sending something from California to Maine, let's say, is so easy where if I want to ship something, even if it's not a CITES animal, there's still fish and wildlife involved in the whole thing.
Adam WickensGUEST
And if it's a CITES animal, then now, so the process to get the, I got a water monitor coming from California.
Adam WickensGUEST
It's been months like I'm talking months to get this stuff approved.
Adam WickensGUEST
So it's just so much more difficult here.
Adam WickensGUEST
If I wanted to ship from California to Buffalo, it's like $100, right? So it's like right there.
Adam WickensGUEST
But just getting it that extra mile over the border is an extra $900.
Adam WickensGUEST
Like that's essentially what it is because all the CITES paperwork.
Ramon SalcidoNARRATOR
A professional assessment would have required analyzing location, transportation, density, impacts, alternatives, reforestation, and mitigation.
Ramon SalcidoNARRATOR
That's what methodologies like LEED, CITES, and Envision do.
Ramon SalcidoNARRATOR
transform environmental discussion into measurable and verifiable criteria.
Ramon SalcidoNARRATOR
Envision raises an uncomfortable question.
Seth MorrisPANELIST
Um, and it goes on to say, like, you know, an important part of creating a sustainable future, protecting wildlife from extinction, uh, yada, yada.
Seth MorrisPANELIST
Basically saying you can't sell anything that has anything to do with, um, like CITES animals and, and stuff, like endangered Species Act animals.
Seth MorrisPANELIST
Um-
Steven RinellaHOST
As it should
Jennie Erin SmithGUEST
The thing about Hank's time was that, in essence, all of this was legal.
Jennie Erin SmithGUEST
And when it became illegal in the 1970s, a lot of these animals were prohibited on the Endangered Species Act and later CITES, when it became illegal, the zoos were not paying all that much attention.
Jennie Erin SmithGUEST
So Hank's business was he had fashioned himself as a zoo dealer.
Jennie Erin SmithGUEST
Actually, there had been even a previous generation of zoo dealers that was as crazy or crazier than Hank, and he was kind of trying to put them out of business and would go and undercut them in places like Papua New Guinea.
Eric GoodeGUEST
It was unsuccessful.
Eric GoodeGUEST
A lot of these ploughshare tortoises at the time came into the country before CITES, before the Endangered Species Act.
Eric GoodeGUEST
Some came in afterwards that were brought in by people like Anson Wong, and they were confiscated and put into breeding groups, and no one could breed ploughshare tortoises.
Eric GoodeGUEST
So a long story to your an- to your an- a long answer to your, uh, question.
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Eric GoodeGUEST
... into the US, 'cause to send them back you go to g- through health screening.
ChuckeyHOST
Mm-hmm.
Eric GoodeGUEST
You gotta go through the bureaucracy and the red tape of CITES and-
ChuckeyHOST
Mm-hmm
RobbieHOST
Impor came to SCI from DFFE, which is the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment out of South Africa.
RobbieHOST
He was their CITES representative.
RobbieHOST
And the reason we have Impor on the podcast today is because South Africa just released its 2026-2027 CITES export quota.
RobbieHOST
If you know anything about the CITES export quota, it's been morassed in legal challenges since 2021.
RobbieHOST
So the fact that we have an issued quota is amazing, number one.
RobbieHOST
And we're probably expecting litigation forthcoming.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
we doing here today?
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You're telling the whole world.
Josh SmithHOST
hunting
John RivettGUEST
how has that affected your business hoops to jump through because at one time they made it that you needed ascites permit to take a bear home Now you only need a CITES to bring to the US.
John RivettGUEST
Once you leave it there and the taxidermist mounts it, he gets the permits.
John RivettGUEST
You don't have to worry about it.
John RivettGUEST
He gets the permits and it goes back to the US because the US thinks they're endangered, but they're not.
John RivettGUEST
The
Jenn RivettGUEST
federal laws are like all the firearm stuff and some stuff like the CITES, but basically we're governed by Alberta law.
Jenn RivettGUEST
And we have an association that deals with it
Warren BoothGUEST
Getting samples from that's very difficult.
Warren BoothGUEST
So you've got to get CITES import even for a blood sample or even for a scale clip.
Warren BoothGUEST
We have to get CITES import paperwork for that there and to get scientific permits to be able to export that material.
AdamHOST
Wow.
Warren BoothGUEST
So even before you start spending the money on the research, we have to get these things brought in.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
And so all of the people in Edinburgh Botanic Gardens went out and collected samples to try and figure out what species of frankincense are out there, what ones we use.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
So that was all funded by Switzerland, CITES.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
So now we've been just trying to get this onto the agenda for the last few years.
Noeleen SmythGUEST
few years you
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