Brussels, 30/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - For the international conference on the protection of wild species of fauna and flora threatened with extinction (twelfth conference of the parties to the CITES Convention on the international trade of such species), to be held in Santiago (Chile) from 3 to 15 November, the European Parliament invites the Union Member States to call for enhanced protection of African elephants, whales, dolphins, tortoises and sharks, and to oppose the African states...