16 U.S.C. § 7612: Statement of United States policy

to take immediate actions to stop the illegal global trade in wildlife and wildlife products and associated transnational organized crime; wildlife protection and management of wildlife populations; anti-poaching and effective management of protected areas including community managed and privately-owned lands; local engagement of security forces in anti-poaching responsibilities, where appropriate; wildlife trafficking investigative techniques, including forensic tools; transparency and corruption issues; management, tracking, and inventory of confiscated wildlife contraband; demand reduction strategies in countries that lack the means and resources to conduct them; and bilateral and multilateral agreements and cooperation; to employ appropriate assets and resources of the United States Government in a coordinated manner to curtail poaching and disrupt and dismantle illegal wildlife trade networks and the financing of those networks in a manner appropriate for each focus country; to build upon the National Strategy and Implementation Plan to further combat wildlife trafficking in a holistic manner and guide the response of the United States Government to ensure progress in the fight against wildlife trafficking; and to recognize the ties of wildlife trafficking to broader forms of transnational organized criminal activities, including trafficking, and where applicable, to focus on those crimes in a coordinated, cross-cutting manner.