- 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
The Sustainable Shipping Initiative signs declaration to tackle global wildlife trafficking
posted by AJOT | Mar 15 2016 at 12:21 PM | Liner Shipping
London - The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (“SSI”) – a pioneering coalition of companies from across the global shipping industry – has today signed a Declaration to tackle global wildlife trafficking routes. The Declaration was unveiled by The Duke of Cambridge, President of United for Wildlife, and is the culmination of 12 months of work to develop a plan, led by the transport sector, to crack down on illegal wildlife trafficking routes.
The signing of the Declaration is in line with one of the key pillars of the SSI’s Vision for a more sustainable shipping industry, which states that shipping must earn a reputation for being a trusted and responsible partner in the communities that it touches around the world.
The United for Wildlife Transport Taskforce Buckingham Palace Declaration is a landmark agreement, committing to take real steps to shut down the routes exploited by traffickers of the illegal wildlife trade, moving their products from killing field to market place.
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: