SAVE WILDLIFE ACT NOW - AT ALL SCALES - OR GAME OVER

The Hague, 1 March 2016

Mette L. Wilkie UNEP

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Policies and Commitments

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Paris London Kasane Hague Hanoi

EU AU

SADC etc

UNGA UNEA

CITES

UNTOC CMS CBD

WCO Interpol

etc

ECOSOC CCPCJ UNSC

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Community engagement

Communication for behavioural

change

Filling gaps in knowledge

Strengthening legislation and

rule of law

Strong policy context requires translation into effective implementation, across scales:

“I urge all consumers, suppliers and governments to treat crimes against wildlife as a threat to our

sustainable future”

United Nations Secretary-General

Ban Ki-moon, World Wildlife Day 2015 4

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Strenghtening the evidence base

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Keeping the evidence base under review

Filling identified

knowledge gaps

Strenghtening monitoring

systems

Regional processes

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Key role of Regional cooperation to ensure coherent and collaborative approaches

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Coherent response -

across scales

Effective national and local implementation of

commitments

Pro-active information

sharing

Collectively determined priorities

Better use available resources

Many different scales…

• Linking action across supply chains – within and across geographic scales

• Addressing large-scale volumes of trade as a priority to address organized crime

• Addressing short-term priorities for enforcement and awareness raising

• Addressing long-term conditions for sustainability and sustainable use

• Scale of environmental impacts in relation to other threats (climate change, habitat loss)

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Saving wildlife requires acting now with collective, well-coordinated and evidence-based action….across all scales!