Animal Extinction Prevention Act
RECOGNIZING that extinction is the main thread to biodiversity, and that it can cause consequences such as:
- The extinction of a species may cause other species to die out that feed primarily on the species.
- This effect can cause a chain reaction resulting in many species and ecosystems dying out.
- The loss of species can result in the loss of key ingredients for medicines and treatments.
- Extinction can have long term negative effects to agriculture, tourism, and other commercial values.
UNDERSTANDING that the harm from extinctions would far exceed any harm that would come from effort to save species from extinction.
DEFINES a Species in Risk of Extinction (SRE) as a species whose overall population has decreased to below 2,000.
REQUIRES that any species that is suspected of being an SRE, must be investigated through cooperation of nations in the animal's range; to confirm or to deny that the species' population is under 2,000.
FURTHER REQUIRES that if a species is confirmed to be an SRE, then further investigation must be done, and reports must be made with the following information:
- The estimated population of the species.
- The primary cause or causes of the decline of the species.
- Whether or not there are any conservation efforts currently attempting to rise the population of the species.
- Whether or not the species would be able to survive in captivity.
MANDATES the following action by nations in which an SRE report is made, and an investigation is completed:
a) The nation must work toward either elimination of the cause toward a species' extinction.
b) If an elimination of the cause is nearly impossible, or would be harmful to a nation, then the nation must find another solution to help prevent the species from going extinct. This may include protecting the species in captivity (if possible) or another form of conservation effort.
c) Nations shall share SRE reports with other nations where the same species is going extinct, to examine whether the causes are identical. If the causes are identical, a mutual effort is encouraged.
d) Nations must continue SRE reports on the species each year until the population of the species has risen to 10,000 or above. At that point, conservation efforts are still encouraged.
e) Nations that rise a species' population to 10,000 or above will be recognized as one of the nations that has protected the species.
f) If conservation efforts are taken and the species' population does not rise in a specific nation, then all nations that have filed an SRE report on the species are required to provide aid to save the species in that nation.
g) If conservation efforts are taken and the unlikely event happens that a species' population does not rise in any nation that has filed an SRE report on it, then all nations that have members of that species are required to provide minimal or higher aid of some form.
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