On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:40 am, Marc Weiss (OFI Member) wrote:
STINGRAY EXPORTS FROM BRAZIL
As we have indicated before, it is currently not allowed to export stingrays from Brazil. The legislation behind the quota system ended at the end of last year and a new quota system has not been adopted yet by the Brazilian government. Within the Brazilian government it is IBAMA who is responsible for these matters. OFI has tried to contact IBAMA from the beginning of this situation. In January we received a reply that probably the new legislation would be in force within a month. Since then OFI has send emails to several contact persons within IBAMA, in cooperation with our members in Brazil, and tried to come into contact per phone. Unfortunately, due to language problems contact per telephone proved to be very difficult and emails have not been answered in the last month. Perhaps answers on this issue will come after the present CITES Animals Committee meting in Lima, where stingrays are on the agenda.
