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"Shipping Must Contribute to Helping Tackle Wildlife Trafficking

Alastair Fischbacher the CEO of the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) writes:-

A key challenge for shipping in order to become truly sustainable is to build a reputation for being a trusted industry; one that is known for taking responsibility and contributing to solving some of the many social, environmental and economic issues that touch the communities that shipping is involved with around the world. It is a key pillar of the SSI's Vision of shipping being sustainable by 2040.

This is why on 14th March the SSI joined other leading companies from the transport sectors to sign a Declaration promising to tackle global wildlife trafficking routes.

The United for Wildlife Transport Taskforce Buckingham Palace Declaration is a landmark agreement; a commitment to taking real steps to shut down the routes exploited by traffickers of illegal wildlife trade, moving their products from killing field to market place. It was unveiled by the Duke of Cambridge, President of United for Wildlife, after 12 months of development led by the transport sector, to crack down on illegal wildlife trafficking routes.

The declaration outlines 11 commitments, which have been collaboratively developed over the last 12 months by members of the United for Wildlife Transport Taskforce. The commitments aim to help support the private sector in fighting the illegal wildlife trade, and include:

" Increasing passenger, customer, client, and staff awareness about the nature, scale, and consequences of illegal wildlife trade
" Promoting the Declaration and its Commitments across the entire transport sector and encourage all in the sector to sign up to the Declaration

" Improving the training of staff within the transport sector to enable them to detect, identify and report suspected illegal wildlife trade, and acknowledge staff who champion this cause

" Notifying relevant law enforcement authorities of cargoes suspected of containing illegal wildlife and their products and, where able, refuse to accept or ship such cargoes

Over 40 organisations from the transport industries have signed the Declaration, including a number of leading shipping organisations such as Maersk Group, China COSCO Shipping, Dubai Ports World and the UK Chamber of Shipping. Although a number of trade routes are used for the smuggling of wildlife products, shipping is a significant transporter.

The signing of the Declaration is a necessary and important step in the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking. Fundamentally, it further supports shipping's critical objective of becoming a more sustainable industry, and a more responsible and trusted partner to global communities." Fonte: The Maritime Advocate online--Issue 654.

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