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70. Report of the Central
Africa Bushmeat
Working Group
Cop16 Doc. 70
• Decisions 14.73 and 14.74 encourage the Central
Africa Bushmeat WG to:
• collaborate with the CBD and FAO and to draw
attention of SC and/or CoP to matters relating to
implementation of RC 13.11 on Bushmeat;
• collaborate with the CBD Liaison
• Group on non-timber forest resources;
• report to SC on progress made in implementing
national action plans relating to trade in bushmeat
and other initiatives it takes regarding this
subject; and
• report to CoP16.
• Prepared by Chair of the Central Africa Bushmeat WG.
• Reports on implementation of Decisions 14.73 and
14.74 and notes, inter alia, that:
• WG members met during joint meeting of CBD
Bushmeat Liaison Group and CITES Central Africa
Bushmeat WG (Nairobi, June 2011), and have not
responded to Chair’s request for submission of
national reports;
• WG has developed a strategy and action plan on
bushmeat as part of the implementation of a subregional
action plan on reinforcing implementation
of national laws; and
• a regional GEF project led by FAO in Gabon,
Republic of Congo, DRC, and Central African
Republic titled “Sustainable management of the
wildlife and bushmeat sector in Central Africa” is
being implemented.
• Requests support of the Secretariat in reaching out
to WG members to encourage them to participate in
meetings and submit reports, and recommends the
organization of regular meetings of the WG to facilitate
information exchange.
SUPPORT
• SSN recommends that CoP extend these Decisions to
CoP17; further work on this issue is urgently needed; the
joint meeting of the CBD Liaison Group on Bushmeat and
the CITES Central Africa Bushmeat Working Group (June
2011) “recognized with alarm the growing scale and
commercialization of bushmeat hunting and trade across
range states, and an increasing trend of organized illegal
international trade in bushmeat.”
• SSN recommends that Parties direct the Secretariat to
encourage FAO to consult the CITES scientific committees
on implementation of its new regional bushmeat project,
which intends to “test a new approach to bushmeat”
through “the legal, sustainable use of selected nonthreatened
species through participatory wildlife management.”
Close CITES-FAO collaboration is needed to
ensure that this approach will not have a negative impact
on listed species.
71. Criteria for the
inclusion of species in
Appendices I and II
Cop16 Doc. 71
• Decision 15.28-15.30, inter alia, direct:
• Secretariat to prepare a report on the application
of criterion B and the introductory text of Annex 2
a) of RC 9.24 (Rev. CoP15) on Criteria for amendment
of Appendices I and II to commercially
exploited aquatic species proposed for inclusion
on Appendix II;
• AC to provide its guidance on this issue to the SC;
and
• SC to provide recommendations to CoP16.
• Prepared by SC.
• Invites CoP to support the findings (Annex) of AC
regarding application of Annex 2a) criterion B and the
introductory text to commercially exploited aquatic
species.
• AC:
• finds there are diverse approaches to application of
criterion B and it is not possible to provide guidance
preferring or favoring one approach over another;
• recommends Parties, when applying criterion B,
explain their approach to that criterion, and how
the taxon qualifies for the proposed amendment;
• encourages Parties, when drafting and submitting
proposals to amend the Appendices for commercially-exploited
aquatic species, to elucidate the vulnerabilities,
as defined in Annex 5 of RC 9.24 (Rev.
CoP15), and mitigating factors including, but not
SUPPORT
• SSN encourages Parties to draft and adopt a Decision
directing the Secretariat to issue a Notification communicating
the findings of AC to Parties.
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