Target 3: National, regional and international governance arrangements and agreements affecting migratory species and their migration systems have improved significantly, making relevant policy, legislative and implementation processes more coherent, accountable, transparent, participatory, equitable and inclusive.
Theme 9 - National, Regional and International Collaboration and Cooperation:
Objective 1 - Promote and enhance national, regional and international coordination, collaboration and partnership for whale and dolphin conservation in the Pacific Islands Region:
9.5) Develop linkages and relationships with relevant regional organizations and processes, such as RFMOs (e.g. MoUs, information exchange and cross-sectoral integration).
► The Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks; Conservation Plan includes:
· (Planned for 2017) a Strategy on the Cooperation with Regional Fisheries Bodies to be developed.
· A provision in the CMS/CITES Joint Work Programme 2015-2020 (B17) which seeks to optimize the effectiveness of actions taken by Parties to both CMS and CITES concerning sharks and rays, and to strengthen synergies with FAO, RFMOs and other relevant bodies.
· Cooperation with the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) on capacity building to support progress on the implementation of the Regional Observer Scheme of IOTC.
· Recommendation by the IOTC Working Party on Ecologically Related Species for future joint activities between CMS and IOTC, in particular related to Capacity Building.
► The Conservation and Management Plan of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation and Management of Marine Turtles and their Habitats of the Indian Ocean and South-East Asia (IOSEA Marine Turtle MoU) includes:
Objective 5 - Enhance national, regional and international cooperation:
5.1.a) Encourage signatory States that have not already done so to become Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
5.1.b) Review at a national level compliance with obligations under CITES relating to trade in marine turtles, their eggs, parts or products.
5.1.c) Facilitate better compliance with CITES through training of relevant authorities in cooperation with other signatory States, the CITES Secretariat and other relevant organisations.
5.1.d) Identify routes of international illegal trade through monitoring, and seek cooperation to take action to prevent, deter and, where possible, eliminate illegal trade.
5.1.e) Exchange and discuss information on compliance and trade issues at regular intervals, such as through annual reporting to the MoU Secretariat and at meetings of the signatory States.
5.3.h) Encourage MoU Signatory States that have not already done so to become Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS).
5.3.i) Encourage signatory States to become Parties to global fisheries agreements such as the UN Fish Stocks Agreement (1995) and the FAO Compliance Agreement (1993) and implement the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (1995).
5.3.j) Establish relationships with regional fisheries bodies with a view to obtaining data on incidental capture and encourage them to adopt marine turtle conservation measures within EEZs and on the high seas.
► The Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation and Management of Dugongs (Dugon dugong) and their Habitats throughout their Range (Dugong MoU) includes:
Objective 7 – Promote implementation of the MoU:
7.1) Encourage all Range States to participate in the MoU and its conservation and management activities.
► The Saker Falcon Global Action Plan includes:
Objective 5 - Ensure effective stakeholder involvement in the implementation of Saker GAP within a Saker Falcon Adaptive Management Framework:
5.8) Raise stakeholders’ awareness of the status and biology of the Saker Falcon and increase their cooperation and involvement in its conservation:
5.8.2) Collaborate with key stakeholders within the Saker Falcon Network. Hold regular regional and sub-regional meetings, workshops and conferences with them to understand their needs and to plan, implement, monitor and review conservation measures with them.
► The Programme of Work of the Central Asian Mammals Initiative includes:
Objective 1 - To address key threats and issues currently not (sufficiently) covered by existing work programmes and stakeholders:
1.4.1) Develop/review the existing policies and regulatory frameworks that affect migratory and transboundary species (or policies that create known/identified threats) which are of interest to CMS to address gaps.
1.4.2) Identify if the problems exist at the local level or at national level and where the policies are in conflict with each other.
1.4.6) Create a ‘best practice’ policy guide for issues that affect migratory and transboundary species in CAMI countries.
Objective 4 - To support implementation, coordination and resourcing of the CAMI:
4.2.13) Include biodiversity conservation measures into the contracts with mining companies (e.g. to Product Sharing Agreements).
1. Urges CMS Focal Points and Scientific Councillors to communicate and liaise regularly with the national representatives in the IPBES to ensure that the needs for research and policy guidance related to migratory species, especially those listed under CMS, are being adequately addressed by IPBES;
3. Encourages Parties and relevant organizations to make available funds to support the four functions of IPBES, namely assessments, policy support, capacity building and knowledge generation aimed at improving the science-policy interface related to the conservation of migratory species;
4. Requests the Scientific Council to participate in relevant processes of IPBES, in collaboration with the scientific advisory bodies of other MEAs as appropriate;
5. Instructs the Secretariat to maintain cooperative working relationships with IPBES, to participate as appropriate in meetings of the Platform and to report on progress to the Standing Committee, resources permitting
► The CMS COP Resolution 11.16 (Rev. COP12) on The Prevention on Illegal Killing, Taking, and Trade of Migratory Birds includes:
1. Calls on Parties, non-Parties and other stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations, to engage in immediate cooperation to address the illegal killing, taking and trade of migratory birds through support of, and collaboration with, existing international initiatives and mechanisms to address these issues, as well as establishing (as appropriate and where added value can be assured) Task Forces targeted at facilitating concerted action to eliminate illegal killing, taking and trade of shared populations of migratory birds in those areas where such problems are prevalent;
2. Calls on the Secretariat to convene an Intergovernmental Task Force to Address Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds in the Mediterranean2 in conjunction with the Secretariats of AEWA, the Raptors MOU, the AEMLAP and the Bern Convention, involving the Mediterranean Parties, including the European Union, other interested Parties, including from outside the region, and other stakeholders such as BirdLife International and the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation of the EU (FACE), to facilitate the implementation of that existing guidelines and action plans, any necessary new guidelines and action plans relating to the Mediterranean (particularly the Tunis Action Plan) and to consider whether any new guidelines, action plans or other recommendations to respond to specific problems are necessary;
5. Decides to establish, subject to the availability of resources, an Intergovernmental Task Force on Illegal Hunting, Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds in the East AsianAustralasian Flyway (ITTEA) and adopts the Terms of Reference included in Annex 2 to this Resolution;
6. Calls also on the Secretariat actively to work with Parties and non-Party Range States and others in South and Central America and the Caribbean to conduct an assessment of Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds in that region;
11. Calls on Parties and invites non-Parties and stakeholders, with the support of the Secretariat, to strengthen national and local capacity for addressing illegal killing, taking and trade of migratory birds, inter alia, by developing training courses, translating and disseminating relevant materials and examples of best practice, sharing protocols and regulations, transferring technology, and promoting the use of online tools and other tools to address specific issues;
12. Urges Parties and invites the United Nations Environment Programme and other relevant international organizations, bilateral and multilateral donors to support financially the operations of the Task Force to Address Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds in the Mediterranean, including through funding for its coordination, and subject to the results of monitoring mentioned in paragraph 5, the development of equivalent Task Forces at other trouble spots, including through the provision of financial assistance to developing countries for relevant capacity building;
14. Calls also on the Secretariat to ensure in conjunction with the Secretariats of the EAAFP and the Arctic Migratory Birds Initiative (AMBI) the undertaking and completion, subject to available funding, of a situation analysis on the illegal hunting of migratory birds in SouthEast Asia for reporting to Parties at COP13 by Birdlife International, using comparable methodology to the Birdlife International reviews already undertaken on this issue for the Mediterranean region, the rest of Europe and the Middle East.