Executive Branch Launches Plan to Combat Wildlife Trafficking

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On February 11, 2015, one year to the day after the President issued the National Strategy for Combatting Wildlife Trafficking, the Departments of Justice, State, and the Interior released an implementation plan for the Strategy. The implementation plan affirms the government’s commitment to working with the private sector to combat wildlife trafficking, which has escalated over the last decade into an urgent conservation and national security threat. The government recognizes that like other forms of illegal trafficking, wildlife trafficking fuels organized crime and official corruption, destabilizing governments and undermining economic development.

To prevent illegal wildlife products from entering the supply chain, the implementation plan calls for, among other things, increased trade enforcement; new support for developing technologies; strengthened trade laws; and the formation of public-private partnerships in affected industries, including e-commerce and transportation.

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