The Cites calendar of the Carabinieri is back, dedicated to animal and plant species threatened with extinction and protected by a special body of the weapon.
The CITES unit, with its 35 Units, 11 Detachments in the customs area and a Central Operational Section, takes its name from the CITES Convention signed in Washington in 1973 on the international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora.
The 2022 Calendar was presented on Friday at the Rectorate of the University of Rome La Sapienza.
Present were the Rector of the University, Antonella Polimeni, and General Antonio Pietro Marzo, Commander of the Forestry Carabinieri.
The calendar was created with the collaboration of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of Sapienza.
The tables of the calendar illustrate the species most at risk and the activities that the specialized units of the Carabinieri carry out in implementation of the Washington Convention (certification, control, investigative, environmental education and collaboration with Italian and other institutions) international character).
The Cites Calendar, created for the first time in 2008, in 2014 was included by the Cites General Secretariat of Geneva among the ten most important communication projects in the sector worldwide.
