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Objectives

To ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature.

Core Activities

• Monitors wildlife trade at international, regional and national levels - researching both domestic and international chains of supply and demand to identify interventions to increase the efficiency of management.

• Works closely with governments, providing critical information on the impacts of trade, motivating efforts to increase the ecological sustainability of trade in wild species and helping to improve enforcement of international wildlife trade control.

• Enhanced CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) implementation - More scientific foundations for CITES management decision making, including the establishment of robust legislative systems, regulatory guidelines and management frameworks for legal wildlife trade (e.g. setting and monitoring of quotas for harvest and trade).

• Inter-agency co-operation - Both in-country and between countries, to implement and enforce regulatory systems and legislation.

• Working with the private sector and civil society - The active engagement of trade and consumer associations, the transport industry and general civil society will help raise awareness of laws and upstream conservation effect market divers.

Area of Interest

Wildlife trade and CITES capacity building.

Contact Information

TRAFFIC - the wildlife trade monitoring network
Unit 9-3A, 3rd Floor, Jalan SS23/11, Taman Sea, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Tel: (603) 7880 3940
Fax: (603) 7882 0171
Email: naatsea@po.jaring.my
Web: www.traffic.org