Over 120 countries will gather in Manila for the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species(CMS COP12) from October 23 to 28, 2017 - the first time that the COP will be held in Asia. The meeting will address a range of critical issues facing the world's endangered wildlife shared across international borders. A high number of proposals for greater protection under the Convention have been tabled for negotiation, including very well-known species such as the chimpanzee, giraffes, leopards, lions and the whale shark.

UN wildlife conference kicks off in Manila next week. (2017, October 20-21). BusinessWorld, p.S4/4.