Greater international cooperation is also required to effectively combat the illegal trade in wildlife.

The project aims to involve local communities in the monitoring of wildlife populations, as well as to assess the impact of trade on wildlife populations in order to develop and implement sustainable trade strategies that ensure the long term survival of wildlife species.

While the proportion of this trade that is illegal is difficult to determine, it is estimated that the financial cost of the illicit global wildlife trade runs into several billion dollars and that its environmental costs are immeasurable.

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The secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora, however, has.

Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolutions

Activities include national training seminars for agents charged with wildlife conservation and control, the production of a practical manual for the identification of regional species, and the revision of national conservation legislation with a view to ameliorating the implementation of the country apos s obligations under the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

While the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is a critical component of controlling some species of endangered timber, it is not feasible to extend its ambit to cover the whole illegal logging industry.

NW OK, before I continue, I think it's important to take just a moment to talk about bush meat. Bush meat is the hunting of wild game.

(e) Report of the Secretary General on illicit trafficking in protected species of wild flora and fauna (E CN.15 2005 10)

In some States parties, illegal trade in wildlife is not considered a criminal offence and is treated under administrative regulations.

Section V reports on BioTrade Initiative activities.

Lusaka Agreement on Co operative Enforcement Operations Directed at Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora. Lusaka, 8 September 1994

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(e) Report of the Secretary General on illicit trafficking in protected species of wild flora and fauna (E CN.15 2005 10)

This is in part the result of haphazard reporting by States to the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Environmental liability can also counter the propensity to resort to illicit waste trade in the wake of trade restrictions.

And that's what many people know East Africa for the wildlife, the elephants, and so on.

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Although it was recognized that States had sovereign rights over their own biological and genetic resources, there was a call for international cooperation and implementation of the relevant international instruments, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Foxes are wild animals.

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It covers UNCTAD's contribution to the work of the Special Session of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment and includes some considerations relating to renewable energy equipment.

Although parties to the Convention are obliged to adjust their national legislation in order to criminalize the illegal trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora, not all of them have established the appropriate legal framework to comply with that obligation.

OK? And you can consider all sorts of different bush meat.

Do you have anybody in your communities, or people, that know the bush very well and that know wildlife very well?

Decision XVII __ Preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances

He noted that most customs agencies faced similar problems when it came to illegal trade in chemicals, which included the lack of specialized knowledge, the difficult task of dealing with chemicals in transit, and the need having to deal with the financial issues that surroundinged confiscation of illegally transported chemicals.

After thanking the delegate from EIA, the Chairman requested the representative from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to give his presentation.

Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals

Venezuela is also party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the Convention on Biological Diversity, which we consider to be the appropriate legal framework for regulating the conservation and the use of biological diversity in all its aspects.

Because of the wide range of countries that produce psychotropic substances, intercontinental trade may be of less significance for the trafficking of those substances, with the exception of the growing licit trade in psychotropic substances and their diversion to illicit purposes between Asia and Africa.

Draft decision XVII I Preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances

In November 2002, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora adopted a resolution regarding trade in toothfish requesting, inter alia, parties to adopt the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Catch Documentation Scheme and to adhere to the Commission's Convention if they are involved in toothfish fishing or trading.

They even build zoos so wild animals live good.

A critter's faster than us and stronger.

They include the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals under which the recent Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels was negotiated.

The National Wildlife Federation is a non governmental non profit tax exempt conservation organization.

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You were always lugging home wild things.

(d) Dissemination by Parties of new methods regarding illegal trade should be promoted.

Workshop of experts to develop specific areas

It is a vicious killer of wildlife.

You mustn't give your heart to a wild thing.

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