The New York Times reports on recent research by Dr. David Wilcove and Dr. Eyal Frank. Their study, using the example of the Indonesia black-winged mynas, looks at the disconnect between Cites (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) and scientific data regarding threatened species. 

Read the story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/science/endangered-species-cites.html 

The full study, "Long delays in banning trade in threatened species," was published in Science 15 February 2019.