CITES does little, if anything to curb habitat destruction, as most of that is being done for economic development. In fact, it appears that the combination of habitat destruction and CITES are hastening the loss of orchids and other species.
You cannot logically ask a poor farmer to not clear some land to grow more food for his family, but then we have a trade convention that stops any threatened species from being rescued and sold on the world market, potentially prolonging the viability of the species.
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