Wow,
Thats a good article to read.
I have always thought, up until a few months ago, that CITES allowed the sale of the artificially propagated offspring of wild cought flora or fuana. Now that I know they don't allow it, I'm thinking, what were they thinking? To me its almost intuitive(when thinking along the lines of hobbies) that once you get an endangered species well established as captive bred population in the hobby the smugglers can't make a profit by selling wild caught individuals. Therefore, they stop smuggling. 
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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
-J.R.R. Tolkien, LOTR, Fellowship of the Ring
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