Sustainable Use of Biodiversity

Submissions of interest in a collaborative partnership on sustainable wildlife management

In recommendation XV/6, the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) requested the Executive Secretary to “explore options for the development of a collaborative partnership on sustainable wildlife management to enhance cooperation and coordination for implementation of the recommendations of the Liaison Group on Bushmeat, and to report to the Conference of the Parties at its eleventh meeting.”

In response to his request, the Executive Secretary issued notification 2012-009, soliciting expressions of interests from relevant organizations for participating in a collaborative partnership on sustainable wildlife management. In the notification, organizations were invited to respond at their earliest convenience and before the end of the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Organizations were encouraged to include in their responses: their expectations for the partnership; a description of their key experiences in sustainable wildlife management at global, regional and national level; any suggestions for the organizational format of the partnership; and any indications of the resources they could contribute to the partnership.

In response to this notification, expressions of interests were submitted by the following organizations. Their expressions of interest are reproduced below in the format and language in which they were received by the Secretariat.