Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which CITES-listed species her Department has given approval for export from the Turks and Caicos Islands in the last year; and at what level each such export quota has been set.

As responsibility for environmental issues in the UK’s Overseas Territories is devolved to Territory governments, it is not for the UK Government to approve exports from the Turks and Caicos Islands of specimens listed on the Appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

The UK’s ratification of CITES has not been extended to the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Turks and Caicos Islands trade in specimens of CITES-listed species as a non-Party to CITES and issue CITES-comparable documentation to facilitate this.