Participants at the end of the meeting
(photo courtesy of UNEP).
The Lusaka Agreement on
Cooperative Enforcement Operations Directed at Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and
Flora held its ninth Governing Council Meeting in Kampala, Uganda, on 3 October
2008. The Governing Council was preceded by a two-day Meeting of Experts, which
identified a number of common and challenging issues facing parties.
Traditional
poaching has given way to more sophisticated commercial poaching stretching the
resources of wildlife enforcement agencies across Africa.
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