Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN‐CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy.

Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN-CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy Challender et al. also believe that CITES protection (via Appendices I and II) should be reserved for vanishing species whose I main i threat is international trade versus those for which international trade is one of multiple threats and maybe not even the primary one. Challender et al. (2021) critique our paper (Frank & Wilcove, 2019) in which we report that species assessed by the IUCN Red List as threatened with extinction that are also traded internationally can languish for well over a decade until they are protected under CITES (via Appendix I or II), if they are protected at all. [Extracted from the article]

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