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2025/027 (Corr.): Proposals to Amend the Appendices of the Convention

This is a corrigendum to Notification 2025/027, which was issued on 4 November 2025. It makes two corrections to the list of Proponent Parties in the Annex to the notification and corrects to the name of the species Pterodroma leucoptera.

The deadline for submission of proposals to amend the Appendices of the Convention to be considered by the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) closed on 24 October 2025.

The species covered by the proposals received by the deadline are set out in the table contained in the Annex of this Notification. The Party/Parties proposing the amendment is/are also indicated.

The proposals will be discussed at the Eighth meeting of the Sessional Committee of the CMS Scientific Council (ScC-SC8, Bonn, Germany, 15-18 December 2025), and the decision as to whether to accept the proposed amendments will be taken at COP15.

In accordance with Article XI, paragraph 3 of the Convention, Parties are invited to communicate any comments on the proposals to the Secretariat by 22 January 2026. All comments submitted by that date will be published by the Secretariat as part of COP15 documentation.

Pursuant to paragraph 12 of Resolution 13.7, the Secretariat will consult other relevant intergovernmental bodies, including Regional Fishery Management Organizations, having a function in relation to any species subject to a proposal for amendment of the Appendices, and will report on the outcome of those consultations.

The Secretariat has published the texts of all proposals in English, French and Spanish, in line with Rule 19.1 of the Rules of Procedure of the Conference of the Parties.

The COP15 agenda and the agenda of the ScC-SC8 has been made available on the respective meeting pages on the CMS website.


 

ANNEX

Doc. No.

Latin Name

Proponent Party

Appendix

Mammalia

  

30.2.1

Acinonyx jubatus

(populations of Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia)

Zimbabwe

I & II

30.2.2

Hyaena hyaena

Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

I & II

30.2.3

Pteronura brasiliensis

France

I & II

30.2.4

Cervus elaphus 

yarkandensis

Uzbekistan

Removal from I 

Aves

30.2.5

Pterodroma leucoptera 

(populations of Australia and New Caledonia)

Australia, Brazil, Chile, Cook Islands, Dominican Republic, Fiji, New Zealand 

II

Pterodroma brevipes

II

Pterodroma defilippiana

II

Pterodroma longirostris

II

Pterodroma cookii cookii

II

Pterodroma cookii orientalis

II

Pterodroma pycrofti

II

Pterodroma axillaris

II

Pterodroma neglecta juana

II

Pterodroma arminjoniana

II

Pterodroma alba

II

Pterodroma baraui

I

Pterodroma cervicalis occulta

I

Pterodroma cervicalis cervicalis

II

Pterodroma externa

II

Pterodroma hasitata

I

Pterodroma feae

II

Pterodroma deserta

II

Pterodroma madeira

I

Pterodroma magentae

I

Pterodroma incerta

I

30.2.6

Ardenna carneipes

Australia, France, New Zealand

II

30.2.5

Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi

Australia, Brazil, Chile, Cook Islands, Dominican Republic, Fiji, New Zealand 

I

Pseudobulweria aterrima

I

Pseudobulweria becki

I

Pseudobulweria rostrata

II

30.2.7

Numenius phaeopus hudsonicus

Brazil, Chile

I

30.2.8

Limosa haemastica

Brazil, Chile 

I

30.2.9

Tringa flavipes

Uruguay

I

30.2.10

Bubo scandiacus

Norway

II

30.2.11

Sporophila iberaensis

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay

II

Pisces

  

30.2.12

Alopias pelagicus[1]

Panama

I

Alopias superciliosus1

Alopias vulpinus1

30.2.13

Mustelus schmitti

Brazil

II

30.2.14

Sphyrna lewini1

Ecuador

I

30.2.15

Sphyrna mokarran1

Ecuador

I

30.2.16

Squatina guggenheim

Brazil

II

30.2.17

Pseudoplatystoma corruscans

Brazil

II

 


 


[1] Species already listed in Appendix II.