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Committee: International Labor Organization Topic: Wildlife trafficking Country: The Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Although the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITIES) and other organizations as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have been regulating the buying and selling of Wildlife since 1973, illegal wildlife trafficking has not stopped. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, member country of CITIES, SAWEN and most of the organizations against illegal animal trade, believes that to end up with the problem of wildlife trafficking we should base on co-ordination and co-operation between countries with this problem. This would favor the disappearance of illegal trades and the recovery of endangered species.

Despite there is not so much wildlife trafficking in Pakistan the most important animal traders traffic with is the turtle. Thus, Pakistan has not created any national policies which prohibit illegal animal trade or punish in a special way traffickers.

On May 2010, experts from South Asia had founded the South Asian Wildlife Enforcement network (SAWEN) as on organization formed by seven countries to fight against illegal animal trafficking. The experts from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka agree quickly on the structure and ideas based on co-ordination and co-operation between their countries. Their agreement consisted in the following six months, starting on May, SAWEN will be based on collecting key information, identifying resources and finding abilities from member countries. They also considered important to do joint operations, training programs, communicating plans and the last and most important, to make possible the network to intercept major trafficking activities.

``We can tell them dumb animals, and so they are for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words’’ Anna Sewell. As Anna Sewell said, animals cannot express themselves, that is a fact which most of the people don't understand. This makes illegal traders traffic without any remorse.

Several international organizations have tried to define the scale of international illegal wildlife trafficking. However, it is very difficult to make an exact number or a good approximation because we are not noticing this trade. The result covers a very big range from 25%-70% of the legal trade. TRAFFIC International has suggested the value of illegal trade could be from 2.25 billion pounds to 6.3 billion pounds.

Pakistan has confidence that the problem of wildlife trafficking could be solved, but Pakistanis think that there should be more control and vigilance but not only in Asia, all over the world. Another way to stop animal trade would be that each inhabitant of the world, do what he or she can, because every little helps. The most important thing is that in order to finish with illegal animals trading in to work, together, all the countries, all over the world.

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