16 U.S.C. § 4902 — Statement of purpose
submitted 34 years ago by Pub. L. 102-440 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 108 words · no verdicts yet
This chapter promotes conservation of exotic birds through assistance, sustainable trade, limits on imports, humane treatment, and implementation of the Convention.
The chapter promotes exotic-bird conservation by (1) assisting wild-bird conservation and management programs in countries of origin; (2) ensuring United States*-related trade is biologically sustainable and does not harm the species*; (3) limiting or prohibiting imports when needed to ensure (A) removing birds from the wild does not harm wild populations, and (B) birds in trade are treated humanely; and (4) encouraging and supporting effective implementation of the Convention*.
The purpose of this chapter is to promote the conservation of exotic birds by—
assisting wild bird conservation and management programs in the countries of origin of wild birds;
ensuring that all trade in species* of exotic birds involving the United States* is biologically sustainable and is not detrimental to the species;
limiting or prohibiting imports of exotic birds when necessary to ensure that—
wild exotic bird* populations are not harmed by removal of exotic birds from the wild for the trade; or
exotic birds in trade are not subject to inhumane treatment; and
encouraging and supporting effective implementation of the Convention*.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 102–440, title I, § 103, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2225.)
- 1992Enacted · Pub. L. 102-440 · 106 Stat. 2225
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