National Policy and Legal Frameworks to Curb the Wildlife Trade

Dr.Kanjana NitayaWildlife Conservation Bureau,

Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation

Content

• Trade: demand and supply• Legislation implementing on CITES• Agencies involved in enforcing CITES legislation • Policy• Cooperation between countries or agencies• Continuing Collaboration/Bilateral Activities

with other countries

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5Plant Quarantine Station

Wildlife Checkpoint

Aquatic Species Checkpoint

Checkpoints & Enforcement Authorities

• 36 Wildlife Checkpoints• 22 Aquatic Species

Checkpoints• 31 Plant Quarantine

Checkpoints• 66 Customs Checkpoints

Total: 155 Checkpoints

Legislation implementing CITES

• Wild Animal Reservation and Protection Act B.E. 2535 (1992)

• Plant Act B.E.2535 (1992)• Customs Act B.E.2469 (1926)

Policy

1 The National Master Plan for Wildlife Conservation and Management 2005-20142 Protected Area Designation3 Listing protected species that including species in CITES Appendices4 Participation in ASEAN-WEN and other multilateral cooperation5 Establishment of Thailand WEN6 Administers trade permit system7 Border control checkpoints (155) run by four agencies8 Awareness raising campaigns9 Capacity building for agencies and community organisations10 Captive breeding programs11 Research on key, endangered and CITES species12 Building capacity for law enforcement officers13 Sniffer dog program for Suvarnabumi Airport14 Participation in PATROL through funding for Border Liaison Offices15 Establishment of Anti Corruption Strategy/NACC

Cooperation between countries or agencies

Thai WEN - Thai Wildlife Enforcement Network first established in August2006 (Thailand National Task Force for ASEAN-WEN)

Recently the Thai-WEN has 22 agencies* in collaborating to stop illegal wildlife trade and overall 155 checkpoints in Thailand enforcing illegal wildlife trade across borders

Key implementing agencies: 1. Department of National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation2. Department of Agriculture 3. Department of Fisheries4. Royal Thai Customs 4. Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Suppression Division

• MoUs established between MA and:– Scientific Authority– Customs– Police– Private sector bodies

• Government playing an active role in encouraging cooperation at national and international level in particular bilateral cooperation with neighboring country where wildlife crime has been occurred heavily, i.e. Lao PDR and Malaysia

• Supports relevant intergovernmental organization such as CITES and INTERPOL by hosting various meeting including CITES CoP, INTERPOL Wildlife Crime Working Group, etc., and actively participates in INTERPOL’s Executive committee

• Building acceptance and recognition of wildlife crime as a serious transnational organized crime among ASEAN Community by proposing the inclusion of wildlife crime as a priority crime area under ASEAN Framework on Transnational Crime (ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crimes)

• Meetings between agencies

Continue…Enforcing, training and

Awareness Campaigning….

Continuing Collaboration/Bilateral Activitieswith other countries

16-17 July, 2007• ASEAN-WEN Pre-bilateral

Meeting; Cross Border Cooperation Between Malaysia and Thailand, Chonburi, Thailand

27 – 29 August 2012• 2nd Bilateral Meeting between

Malaysia and Thailand in Phuket, Thailand

2013 • 2nd Bilateral meeting between Thai

and Laos PDR (National level). • Cross Border Cooperation meeting

between Thai and Malaysian officers (Follow up at local level)

2014 (Working)1st Bilateral meeting between Thai and Myanmar.

20153rd Bilateral meeting between Thai and Malaysia.

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