Author: Hamudi I. MajambaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Wildlife Trade and the Implementation of Cites in Tanzania
Author: Hamudi I. MajambaReview of Tanzania's Wildlife Policies and Laws
Author: Didi WamukoyaPublisher: African Wildlife Foundation
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Tanzania is one of the most bio‐diverse countries on the African continent with a long history of conservation. The Tanzanian government remains committed to conserving wildlife resources and their habitats. Legislation on wildlife conservation in Tanzania dates as far back as the 1890’s and from that time, it has been transformed to address modern day challenges and changing wildlife conservation methods. Tanzania is also a party to various international instruments including CITES, UNCAC and UNCTOC. These instruments make provisions for parties to enact legislation that will enhance wildlife law enforcement. They include provisions on regulation of wildlife trade, prevention of organized crime and money laundering and addressing corruption. Tanzania has domesticated these provisions by enacting various pieces of legislation including anti‐money laundering laws, prevention of organized crime laws and anti‐corruption laws. These laws support the main wildlife legislation in providing harsher penalties for wildlife offences and addressing corruption as a driver of wildlife crimes. Despite all the policy and legislative efforts made by Tanzania to prevent wildlife crime, there has been a worrying loss of wildlife in the recent past. This has been attributed to high demand for wildlife products in Asia, poverty in Tanzania that incentivises wildlife crime, penetration of organised criminal groups into Tanzania and corruption in law enforcement. Tanzania has been working to overcome these challenges and has seen wildlife poaching and trafficking kingpins arrested and handed very hefty penalties which will hopefully deter other wildlife offenders.
Wildlife Trade and the Implementation of Cites in Kenya
Author: Christine MathengeGuidelines for Legislation to Implement CITES
Author: Cyrille de KlemmPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831701165
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This publication covers all the major aspects of CITES implementation, stresses the role of Resolutions and contains recommendations for specific measures that might be taken by the Parties. It is a reference for any Party that is faced with enacting legislation for the adequate implementation of CITES.
World Wildlife Crime Report 2020
Author: United Nations PublicationsPublisher: UN
ISBN: 9789211483499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The report presents the latest assessment of global trends in wildlife crime. It includes discussions on illicit rosewood, ivory, rhino horn, pangolin scales, live reptiles, tigers and other big cats, and European eel. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has highlighted that wildlife crime is a threat not only to the environment and biodiversity, but also to human health, economic development and security. Zoonotic diseases - those caused by pathogens that spread from animals to humans - represent up to 75% of all emerging infectious diseases. Trafficked wild species and the resulting products offered for human consumption, by definition, escape any hygiene or sanitary control, and therefore pose even greater risks of infection.
The Live Bird Trade in Tanzania
Author: R. K. TibanyendaPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831703657
Category : Wild bird trade
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The practice of keeping live birds in captivity has been widespread throughout this century and has increased considerably as the 20th century comes to a close. In the last decade or so, the increased trade in live birds from Tanzania has given rise to a number of concerns regarding the sustainability of the trade, its effects on bird numbers, and illegal trafficking. As part of its efforts to palliate the lack of legislation and planning in this domain and to evaluate the effects of this trade, in 1990 the Tanzanian government initiated the Planning and Assessment for Wildlife Management (PAWM) project. As part of this project, a workshop on the live bird trade in Tanzania was organized in Dar Es Salaam in December 1991 and gave rise to a series of initiatives. This publication provides a record of these initiatives and of the PAWN's efforts to arrive at and implement them. It also provides a record of the papers presented during the workshop and the recommendations that emerged therefrom.
Combating Wildlife Trafficking
Author: Tracy BellPublisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781634845984
Category : Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the past decade, wildlife trafficking -- the poaching or other taking of protected or managed species and the illegal trade in wildlife and their related parts and products -- has escalated into an international crisis. Wildlife trafficking is both a critical conservation concern and a threat to global security with significant effects on the national interests of the United States and the interests of our partners around the world. As President Obama said in Tanzania in July 2013, on issuing a new Executive Order to better organise United States Government efforts in the fight against wildlife trafficking, wildlife is inseparable from the identity and prosperity of the world as we know it. We need to act now to reverse the effects of wildlife trafficking on animal populations before we lose the opportunity to prevent the extinction of iconic animals like elephants and rhinoceroses. Like other forms of illicit trade, wildlife trafficking undermines security across nations. Well-armed networks of poachers, criminals, and corrupt officials exploit porous borders and weak institutions to profit from trading in illegally taken wildlife. This book discusses national strategy, implementation plans, and restrictions on elephant ivory trade.
South Africa's Wildlife Trade at the Crossroads
Author: Ashish BodasingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wild animal trade
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Guidance for CITES Scientific Authorities
Author: Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 283170684X
Category : Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Use of and trade in wildlife is a fact of life for human society around the globe. Article IV of the CITES Convention requires that exporting countries restrict trade in Appendix II species to levels that are not detrimental either to species? survival, or to their role within the ecosystems in which they occur (known as the ?non-detriment finding?). Based on two workshops convened by IUCN to develop some pragmatic assistance for Scientific Authorities, this publication presents the background to the development of the non-detriment finding checklist and explains how the checklist itself is designed to work, in the hope that Scientific Authority staff will take and develop the parts of the approach that they find useful.
International Illegal Trade in Wildlife
Author: Liana Sun WylerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Background -- Threats -- U.S. policy -- Issues for Congress -- Appendix A. Selected laws related to the wildlife trade -- Appendix B. Additional international efforts to combat wildlife crime.