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WASHINGTON CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED

SPECIES OF WILD FLORA AND FAUNA

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As a result of an initiative by the International

Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) a Diplomatic

Conference was held in Washington in 1973 to draw up a

Convention to regulate international trade in wild animal

and plant species whose survival is endangered. The

substantive provisions of this Convention are intended firs

to reduce as far as possible the threat to endangered

species and second by means of trade controls to help

countries where such species are found to enforce their

own domestic wild life protection laws and regulations.

United Kingdom signed the convention at the close of the

Diplomatica convention on 3 March 1973. A substantial

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