Working Group on Maintaining List of Species listed in CMS Appendices

Article VI, paragraph 1 of the Convention requests the Secretariat to keep an up-to-date list of the Range States of migratory species listed in Appendices I and II, using information received from the Parties. A Working Group on maintaining lists of species listed in CMS Appendices was established by the Seventh Meeting of the Sessional Committee of the Scientific Council (ScC-SC7), held in September 2024, to support the Secretariat in the implementation of Article VI, paragraph 1 of the Convention. 

At its Fifteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15), Decisions 15.229-15.231 on Species that Meet the Criteria for Listing on CMS were adopted. 

Terms of Reference of the Working Group on Maintaining Lists of Species Listed in CMS Appendices