Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I
- PART II
- PART III
- PART IV
- CHAPTER 10 THE CONVENTION ON WETLANDS OF INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE ESPECIALLY AS WATERFOWL HABITAT
- CHAPTER 11 THE CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE
- CHAPTER 12 THE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA
- CHAPTER 13 THE CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF MIGRATORY SPECIES OF WILD ANIMALS
- CHAPTER 14 CONCLUSION
- Appendix: Texts of Conventions
- Index
CHAPTER 13 - THE CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF MIGRATORY SPECIES OF WILD ANIMALS
from PART IV
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I
- PART II
- PART III
- PART IV
- CHAPTER 10 THE CONVENTION ON WETLANDS OF INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE ESPECIALLY AS WATERFOWL HABITAT
- CHAPTER 11 THE CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE
- CHAPTER 12 THE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA
- CHAPTER 13 THE CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF MIGRATORY SPECIES OF WILD ANIMALS
- CHAPTER 14 CONCLUSION
- Appendix: Texts of Conventions
- Index
Summary
“Migration is one of the most fascinating natural phenomena, and it is still a highly mysterious one.”
(Dr. Klaus Schmidt-Koenig, Avian Orientation and Navigation, 1979)Background
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, made a number of recommendations regarding international treaties. One of these, Recommendation 32 of the Action Plan, was that governments should consider the need to enact international conventions and treaties in order to protect species which inhabit international waters or migrate from one territory to another. Recommendation 32 arose out of the realisation that failure to protect a migratory species throughout every stage of its migration can severely damage efforts to maintain or restore its population. The endangered Siberian crane (Grus leucogeranus), for example, is relatively secure in its Russian breeding sites and Indian wintering grounds, but its numbers have steadily declined in recent years primarily because it is hunted on its migratory route through Pakistan and Afghanistan. Many species of North American breeding birds are thought to be declining because of deforestation and the continuing use of DDT and other pesticides in their Central and South American wintering habitats. Passerines breeding in Northern Europe run a biannual gauntlet through the Mediterranean region where they are shot and trapped in their thousands as they make their way to and from their African wintering areas.
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- International Wildlife LawAn Analysis of International Treaties concerned with the Conservation of Wildlife, pp. 278 - 298Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985