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Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora
and Fauna (CITES)
CITES is an international agreement
which aims to ensure that international trade in specimens
of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. |
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Commission
for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)
The CEC is an international
organization created by Canada, Mexico, and the United States
under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation.
The CEC was established to address regional environmental
concerns, help prevent potential trade and environmental conflicts,
and to promote the effective enforcement of environmental
law. |
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International
Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
IFAW works closely with CITES to
improve the welfare of wild and domestic animals throughout
the world by reducing commercial exploitation, protecting
habitat, and assisting animals in distress. |
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North
American Wildlife Enforcement Group (NAWEG)
NAWEG is a cooperative effort between
Canada, Mexico, and the United States focused on improving
North American capacity to enforce laws regulating the sustainable
use and conservation of our wildlife, particularly with respect
to CITES. |
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The
World Wildlife Fund
WWF's mission is to stop the degradation
of the planet's natural environment and to build a future
in which humans live in harmony with nature.
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TRAFFIC
The mission of TRAFFIC, the wildlife
trade monitoring program of WWF and IUCN, is to ensure that
trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation
of nature. |
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World
Conservation Union (IUCN)
IUCN aims to influence, encourage
and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the
integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use
of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
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Environmental
Investigation Agency (EIA)
The EIA was established in 1984 to investigate,
expose and campaign against the illegal trade in wildlife
and the destruction of our natural environment. |
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World
Atlas of Biodiversity
This new interactive online map program
shows relationships between diminishing numbers of the Earth's
species and human development patterns. |
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Journal
of International Wildlife Law and Policy
The journal aims to provide decision
makers with current, multi-disciplinary analysis and information
and to provide a forum to discuss the ethical, legal, socioeconomic
and political implications of differing approaches to wildlife
conservation, management and utilization. |
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ConserveOnline
ConserveOnline is a "one-stop"
online public library, created and maintained by The Nature
Conservancy. The library makes conservation tools, techniques,
and experience available to a broad community of conservation
practitioners. Available in English, español, and português. |
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ECOLEX
"Gateway to Environmental Law"
Through a single search users will now
be able to access bibliographic and analytical information
on multilateral legal instruments, national legislation, soft
law, judicial decisions, law and policy literature and more
for selected subject areas and keywords. See, for example,
ECOLEX
National Legislation: Wild Flora and Fauna. |
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illegal-logging.info
This site provides a central point of
information about efforts to stem illegal forest practices
and the associated trade in forest products, including news
and upcoming events. |
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Lusaka
Agreement on Cooperative Enforcement Operations Directed at
Illegal Trade in Wild Flora and Fauna 
The Agreement resulted in the creation
of the Lusaka Agreement Task Force to combat illegal wildlife
trafficking.
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A
total of 15,589 species face extinction, reveals the 2004 IUCN
Red List of Threatened Species. One in three amphibians and
almost half of all freshwater turtles are threatened, on top
of the one in eight birds and one in four mammals known to be
in jeopardy. See 
Wildlife
News Sources