Wildlife crime enforcement support in West and Central Africa

Parties importing CITES specimens from West and Central Africa are encouraged to assist their counterparts in West and Central Africa, by implementing measures that will address wildlife crime and support legal trade that is limited to sustainable levels, in particular by:

a) supporting efforts to determine and ensure sustainable levels of trade through scientific studies that can facilitate the making of robust non-detriment findings;

b) undertaking due diligence as outlined in Resolution Conf. 11.3 (Rev. CoP19) on Compliance and enforcement and closely scrutinizing consignments of CITES-listed species imported from West and Central Africa and accompanying CITES documents to ensure that illegal species are not laundered into legal trade; and

c) as a priority, raise any concerns about imports with the exporting State, or with the Animals Committee, Plants Committee, Standing Committee, or the Secretariat.

Document status
Valid
Number/Code
18.90 (Rev. CoP19)
Primary category
Illegal trade and enforcement
Decision group
18.90 (Rev. CoP19), 18.91 (Rev. CoP19) & 19.84 to 19.88
Decision directed to
Parties importing CITES specimens from West and Central Africa
Meeting
Nineteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties
Document type
Decision
Withdrawn
No
Secretariat comments included
No