International wildlife law: Understanding and enhancing its role in conservation

摘要: Many conservation professionals are familiar with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Migratory (CMS), Biological Diversity (CBD), Ramsar Convention, and World Heritage Convention. Regional instruments, such as those focusing Africa, Antarctica, or Europe, also conspicuous features of arena. Other international wildlife agreements focus particular species, polar bears albatrosses, transboundary protected areas, huge Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (see table 1). These collectively known law (Bowman et al. 2010). The binding themselves typically accompanied informed by an evolving set nonbinding Conference Parties (COP) decisions action plans.