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The Pros And Cons Of Wildlife Protection

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There are several legislations governing wildlife protection in United State. Among them are Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), Lacey Act 1900, Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), Eliminate, Neutralize and Disrupt (END) Wildlife Trafficking Act. US is also a signatory to Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The widely recognized and best-known wildlife protection law in US is the ESA which has currently listed approximately 2,300 species including foreign species. Among species listed in ESA are birds, fish, mussels, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, invertebrate, plants and insects. The agencies enforcing and administering ESA are the Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Commerce’s …show more content…

In contrast, Section 52 of the INTESA empower the Minister to make the sole decision as he deems fit on the exemption from any of the provision of the Act without providing for open for submission from public. INTESA should also make the exemption available to be reviewed instead of putting all power to the …show more content…

It also prohibits false record made to transport wildlife in interstate or foreign commerce and provides both felony and misdemeanour penalties as well as forfeiture of equipment used in aiding the violation act . Lacey Act has addressed the issue of illegal commerce in wildlife and has make it a federal crime. Wildlife crimes are more or less the same as drug trafficking or other smuggling in US. It works together with other federal statute like ESA and the special agent of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have used techniques that are similar to those in enforcement on law to regulate narcotics. In Malaysia, it has a too lenient enforcement of their law which caused failure to convict offender or reduction in sentence of the offender for violation of the law, also which has lack of expertise, equipment and training to the officials in investigation of the crime and operation of the laws. In contrary, there are well training and law enforcement cooperation in US which is referring to Environmental Crime Section (ECS) which have 43 prosecutors which bring criminal cases against those who violate wildlife law. ECS attorney also provide advice and

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