16 USC 7601 - Definitions

U.S Code last checked for updates: Apr 28, 2024

§ 7601.

Definitions

In this chapter:

(1)

Appropriate congressional committees

The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(A)

the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and

(B)

the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.

(2)

Co-Chairs of the Task Force

(3)

Community conservation

The term “community conservation” means an approach to conservation involving local communities that recognizes the rights of local people to manage, or benefit directly and indirectly from wildlife and other natural resources in a long-term biologically viable manner and includes—

(A)

devolving management and governance to local communities to create positive conditions for resource use that takes into account current and future ecological requirements; and

(B)

building the capacity of communities for conservation and natural resource management.

(4)

Country of concern

The term “country of concern” means a foreign country specially designated by the Secretary of State pursuant to section 7621(b) of this title as a major source of wildlife trafficking products or their derivatives, a major transit point of wildlife trafficking products or their derivatives, or a major consumer of wildlife trafficking products, in which—

(A)

the government has actively engaged in, or knowingly profited from, the trafficking of protected species; or

(B)

the government facilitates such trafficking through conduct that may include a persistent failure to make serious and sustained efforts to prevent and prosecute such trafficking.

(5)

Focus country

(6)

Defense article; defense service; significant military equipment; training

(7)

Implementation Plan

(8)

National Strategy

(9)

National wildlife services

(10)

Security force

(11)

Task Force

(12)

Wildlife trafficking

(Pub. L. 114–231, § 2, Oct. 7, 2016, 130 Stat. 949; Pub. L. 117–263, div. E, title LIX, § 5943(b), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3470.)

cite as: 16 USC 7601