Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:51 am
Good luck!
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
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Araraukar wrote:OOC: Thought it just fair to inform you that I have filed a challenge based on the category. "This isn't strong enough for that Environmental AoE" is not a good enough excuse for a random category switch without touching the active clauses. Especially not after the mods said it was ok to have mild-strength proposals in Environmental (at least in the subcategories, but it might've been for the "All" one as well).
Western Evilly wrote:I would argue this actually fits more into International Security than any other category the way it is written.
Tinhampton wrote:*snip*
Ransium wrote:Well the category is back to environmental all industries. I guess I'm likely to re-submit this eventually, but I have zero desire to conduct a new telegraph campaign at the moment. So for now, what other thoughts do folks have on this draft?
Applauding its members' continued efforts on the preservation of endangered organisms,
Concerned that illegal collection and smuggling of endangered organisms could undermine preservation efforts,
Noting the loss of endangered species has the potential to cause extreme harm to member nations populations; such as possibly hindering the development of life saving medicines and industrial materials, and the destruction of ecosystem services,
Believing that because extinction is irreversible, and letting a species that currently exists in only one nation become extinct therefore permanently renders all nations incapable of ever acquiring populations of that species, member nations have a moral obligation -- not only to their own peoples today, but also to future generations of those peoples and to the international community -- to take action against such illegal collection and smuggling;
1. Instructs the World Assembly Endangered Species Committee (WAESC) and WA member nation's governments to cooperate with each other in creating and maintaining up-to-date lists of the populations of species and subspecies that qualify as 'Endangered';
2. Bans the international import and export into or from member nations of all organisms from endangered species or subspecies, and of goods derived wholly or in part from said organisms, unless any of the following exemptions applies:
They are specimens or goods that are being collected or being returned as part of a scientifically run species restoration program;
They are specimens or goods derived from specimens that originate from a non-wild source such as a farm, laboratory, or nursery, and are birthed, grown, or hatched from seeds, spores, eggs or other material, that itself was collected from a non-wild source or as part of a scientifically run species restoration program;
They are commercial, scientific, or other goods that were derived from specimens under the guidance of a species restoration program and collected in a manner which does not further endanger the species;
They are durable goods such as lumber, which can be historically or scientifically proven to have been processed before the species was first noted as being endangered by WAESC;
They are unintentionally distributed reproductive or other microscopic materials such as seeds, pollen, eggs or spores in trace amounts that are in or on other trade goods;
3. Requires member nations to ardently enforce measures designed to stop the illegal collection and international trade of endangered species and products derived from them, within their jurisdictions;
4. Urges member nations to pass legislation preventing transporting and profiting from endangered species and products derived from them, within their own borders.
Western Evilly wrote:Like I said, International Security.
Western Evilly wrote:*snip*.
Kitzerland wrote:1. Who had a baby? Are there any cute baby picture?
2. So, this would be legal in the environmental category?
Ransium wrote:Bears Armed has asked admin for an Environmental Category - Mild and I will submit the proposal under that category when/if it is made.
Araraukar wrote:Ransium wrote:Bears Armed has asked admin for an Environmental Category - Mild and I will submit the proposal under that category when/if it is made.
OOC: Strengths have been asked for the Environmental category for ages, so I wouldn't hold my breath in Bears's request having much more effect than others'. But of course if he can somehow blackmail/bribe the admins into adding it, that'd be great.
If/when you decide to come back to working on this proposal, please give people enough time to comment on it, rather than submitting it straightaway?
Aclion wrote:My only concern is that the term species restoration program comes up twice, without explanation. Is it a term I should be familiar with or it meant to be generic?
Imperium Anglorum wrote:snip