The CITES list is simply a starting-point - any country, such as the
Phillipines, may ban export of any other species, for any reason at all,
and it is up to the  customs officials of other countries to choose to
honor these prohibitions or not.  The PI Charonia restrictions probably
owe their inception to the period when it was commonly believed (perhaps
correctly! - i do not know - ****ANYONE****???)  that the crown of
thorns starfish was proliferating, and hence eating more coral, partly
because too many Charonia were being killed for the bric-a-brac shell
business.  The Phillipines have a LOT of corals (or rather, HAD, until
most of them were blown up, silted up, poisoned, or torn up for the
bric-a-brac coral business), so protecting Charonia was no doubt a
popular thing to do- and perhaps a practical one as well, based upon the
"prcautionary principle" at least!!
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