CONVENTION ON MIGRATORY SPECIES - ACTION PLAN TO ADDRESS AQUATIC WILD MEAT HARVESTS IN WEST AFRICA

Adopts the Action Plan to Address Aquatic Wild Meat Harvests in West Africa contained in the Annex with the goal of making tangible progress towards the sustainable management of aquatic wild meat harvesting across West Africa and securing the conservation status of all impacted CMS-listed species; 2. [...] Calls on Parties to strive for active collaboration between governmental and non- governmental stakeholders within each range country to maximize the effective use of resources and expertise, to ensure that the results of research and awareness-raising activities can support the design and implementation of effective policy and management; 4. [...] Further calls on Parties and other stakeholders to facilitate regional collaboration between stakeholders across the area of application of the Action Plan to ensure that knowledge and experience gained in one country can be used to most effectively implement conservation action in another; 5. [...] Invites other relevant intergovernmental frameworks, in particular the Convention for the Co-operation in the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the West and Central African Region (Abidjan Convention) and the African Union to take into account the provisions of the Action Plan in the consideration of their activities and to support implementation of relevant Actio. [...] Instructs the Secretariat to bring the Action Plan to the attention of all Range States and relevant intergovernmental organizations, and to monitor the implementation of the Action Plan.