Our mission is to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature. Ensuring wildlife trade does not result in the endangerment of any wild animal and plant species.
Many species are under direct or indirect threat from trade.
Others may become so in the near future. Our work will encourage governments, industry, consumers and local communities to take appropriate actions to reduce threats to these species. Ensuring wildlife trade does not threaten the integrity of priority ecoregions. The world s conservation problems are being addressed at increasingly large bio-geographic scales. Many conservation efforts are now focusing on maintaining essential ecological processes and life support systems, preserving genetic diversity, sustainably utilising species, and working towards realistic, lasting solutions.