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  • verb Present participle of downlist.

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Examples

  • Other long-term goals include establishing three viable populations of the Florida panther and "downlisting" several species from endangered to threatened, including the West Indian manatee, the American crocodile, and the wood stork.

    Vice President Announces Strategy To Restore Everglades ITY National Archives 1999

  • The Southern African Development Community (SADC) fully backs the bids by Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia for the "downlisting" of the African elephant, but conference sources said it had proved difficult to win the support of the rest of the range states, particularly West African Francophone nations.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Wildlife Service missed its mandatory 24-month deadline for determining whether "downlisting" of the species is warranted.

    Courthouse News Service 2010

  • "downlisting" the eastern Pacific stocks of the Grey whale from

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The processes for delisting or downlisting a species from the Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants are the same as the processes for listing.

    Endangered Species Act, United States 2009

  • Japan, for its part, is expected to propose the downlisting of the grey whale and the Minke whale from the CITES list of species whose commercial harvesting has been totally banned.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • This means that at future COPs, South Africa would not have to campaign for a downlisting but rather an amendment to request a quota.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • South Africa now has an Appendix II listing and a zero quota for ivory, which means that at future Cites meetings the country will not have to campaign for a downlisting but rather an amendment to request a quota.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • International Trade in Endangered Species, downlisting Botswana's elephants to Appendix II which allows trade in elephant products, the green light for trade will be given at midnight on April 18.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Zimbabwe had tried earlier to have its elephants downlisted, but failed even though a panel of technical experts who visited the country in 1992 said it met the downlisting standards.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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