Part I. Endangered Species, Sustainable Development and the Law; 1. Introduction; 2. Origins, Evolution and Contribution of CITES to Achieving Sustainable Development; 3. Protected Species, Global Commodities and Law for Sustainable Development; Part II. Sustainable Development in Law and Policy on Endangered Species; 4 . Shifting the Burden of Wildlife Protection: The Role of Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction in Implementing CITES; 5. Analysing CITES Trade Measures; 6. CAFTA-DR Environmental Submission Process as a Public Participation Alternative and a Way to Protect CITES-listed Species; Part III. Global Implementation of CITES by Key Species / Commodity; 7. Power, Profits and Policy: A Reality Check on CITES and the Prunus Africana Bark Trade; 8. The Inclusion of the Scalloped Hammerhead Shark (Sphyrna lewini) in Appendix II of CITES; 9. Understanding Markets to Conserve CITES-listed Species; 10. Criminal Prosecution and Enforcement Challenges in CITES; Part IV. Case Studies of National Implementation of CITES; 11. Sustainable Enterprise Development: Protection of Endangered Species in Omo and Other Potential Biosphere Reserves; 12. Biodiversity MEAs Matrix in India: Synergies, Implementation Status and Future Challenges; 13. Tanzania's Fight against Illegal Ivory Trade: Law-Enforcement Failures and Non-Compliance with International Environmental Laws; 14. The Impact of CITES COP 12 2002 Decision on Mahogany on Peru´s Timber Trade; 15. Strengthening CITES Compliance: Improving the Management of Resources Preservation and Cross-Border Wildlife Trade in China; 16. How to Reverse the Fallacy of Command-and-Control in Combatting Illegal Trade of Exotic Pets in Brazil; 17. Lessons on Sustainable Development and Challenges to Illegal Trade: The Case of Chilean Larch;18. The Return of the Markhor: Why CITES Matters; 19. New Technologies for Effective Biodiversity Governance: Lessons from Orangutans in Indonesia; 20. Regulation of Import of Hunting Trophies of Exotic Species Into India By Framing a Look-Alike Policy to Conserve Indigenous Wild Fauna; 21. Legislation for the Control of the Timber Trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Congo Basin; 22. Sustaining the Global Frankincense Trade through CITES: Governance Challenges and Complexities; Part V. Emerging Issues and Synergies for CITES in the Context of Sustainable Development: 23. Sustaining Commercial Marine Fisheries for This Generation and Future Generations Using CITES Appendix I and II for Trade Traceability; 24. CITES as a Tool for Monitoring and Adaptive Management; 25. Linking Global Processes: Institutional Interplay and the Global Sustainable Development Agenda; 26. Trade and Zoonotic Diseases; 27. The Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) and other Biodiversity Conservation Regimes: Looking through the Lens of Synergy and an Ethical Shift; Part VI. Conclusions; 28. New Directions for Law and Policy on Sustainable Development in the Context of CITES and Endangered Species.