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Umair Shahid

Assistant Manager, Marine Conservation, WWF Pakistan

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Sharks and CITES: crossing my fins for a win-win scenario

Added to Blogs on 15 October 2016

By Umair Shahid

I am feeling a bit nervous and a bit nostalgic for an event from three years ago. In the build-up to a critical vote on sharks and rays at the 17th CITES conference in South Africa in the coming days, my stomach is tied in knots, writes Umair Shahid, North Indian Ocean Cooridnator, WWF-Pakistan.

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