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

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

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.

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.

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(e) Education is key to curbing illegal trade.

(f) Illegal logging and associated trade in forest products

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Processes on forest law enforcement, governance and illegal international trade.

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Monitoring and preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances (decision XVI 33).

Experience showed that undocumented stockpiles were frequently a precursor to illegal trade.

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Monitoring and preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances (decision XVI 33).

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The ban on pit sawing is ineffective and the trade is strictly illegal.

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

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Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society

That used to be the illegal diamond trade, from the UNITA dominated area in Angola.

Furthermore, the problem is linked to the illegal trade in small arms and light weapons.

(xi) Some Parties may wish to help to suppressing illegal trade by banning re export

Combating production, smuggling of narcotics and illegal trade of weapons are regarded as combating terrorism.

To note with appreciation the notes by the Secretariat on information reported by the Parties on illegal trade in ozone depleting substances and on streamlining the exchange of information on reducing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances

(iii) The Parties should reinforce the importance of decision XIV 7, which that called on Parties to report all cases of illegal trade to the Secretariat for dissemination to the Parties, with an understanding that identifying illegal trade and disseminating such information could help other Parties to better understand the methods used by smugglers, and thereby suppress such illegal trade

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It is a vicious killer of wildlife.

One prominent example of the involvement of organized criminal groups is the trade in illegal caviar.

Nevertheless, customs records on illegal shipments do not necessarily reveal the full dimension of such trade.

Joint campaigns on illegal souvenir trading, wildlife watching codes of conduct, and other issues including those of a purely social nature, could draw their strength from their partnership between the public and private sector.

They would ordinarily support fish and other wildlife.

International efforts are required, in both consumer and producer countries, to tackle illegal trade in forest products.

(a) Coordination by Parties at the national and international levels to prevent illegal trade is very important.

And thus, as people started feeling ownership over wildlife, wildlife numbers started coming back, and that's actually becoming a foundation for conservation in Namibia.

(e) Information supplied by members on their progress towards the establishment of control and information mechanisms regarding illegal harvesting and illegal trade in tropical timber and non timber forest products.

(e) Information supplied by members on their progress towards the establishment of control and information mechanisms regarding illegal harvesting and illegal trade in tropical timber and non timber forest products.

Terrorism resorts to organized crime, in particular the illegal trade in drugs and arms as well as theft.

(ivii)d. Efforts should be made to intensify regional information sharing on issues relating todealing with illegal trade.

Further, the scheme did not deal with the social, environmental and land rights issues behind the illegal trade.

55. In October and November 1997, the Taliban authorities declared opium and heroin cultivation, production and trade illegal.

Turkey has been successfully implementing a struggle against illegal production of and trade in drugs for many years.