The outcome at CITES has brought into sharp relief increasing tensions between industrial and environmental interests, as if these were diametrically opposed. Surely a twenty-first-century fisherman does not want to see the basis of his or her living degraded and destroyed, nor does a modern conservationist want to ring-fence the environment and stop people from making a living.
濒危物种国际贸易公约会议的结果缓解了行业与环境利益间越来越尖锐的矛盾，似乎这两种利益是完全对立的。 一位21世纪的渔民肯定不愿看到自己的生存基础遭到削弱和破坏，而另一方面现代环保主义者也不愿意将环境圈起来，不让人们赖以维持生活。