EIA Comments on South Africa 2019 Black Rhinoceros Non-detriment Findings

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is writing in response to the invitation to submit information relating to the non-detriment findings (NDF) for Diceros bicornis (Government Gazette No. 42660, Notice No. 1104, dated 22 August 2019).

EIA has focused its comments on the following components of the NDF:

1) conclusions reached regarding international trade in rhinoceros horn

2) outdated population estimates and poaching data

3) changes to South Africa’s black rhinoceros annual trophy quota adopted at the 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES CoP18).