The Local Switzerland https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed 'We are now really on the edge': CITES endangered species summit opens in Geneva Amid growing alarm over accelerating extinctions, a major international conference opened in Geneva on Saturday aiming to tighten rules on trade in elephant ivory and other endangered animal and plant species. https://www.thelocal.ch/20190818/we-are-now-on-the-edge-extinction-conference-opens-in-geneva Sun, 18 Aug 2019 11:43:13 +0200 we-are-now-on-the-edge-extinction-conference-opens-in-geneva