(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings and purposes. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. Coordination. 
Sec. 5. Relationship to other authorities. 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR INTERNATIONAL 
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION PROGRAM AUTHORITY 
Subtitle A—Institute for International Wildlife Conservation 
Sec. 101. Institute for International Wildlife Conservation. 
Subtitle B—Programs 
Sec. 121. Wildlife Without Borders Program. 
Sec. 122. Public outreach, education, and wildlife awareness program. 
Sec. 123. Center for International Wildlife Recovery Partnerships. 
Subtitle C—Enhancing Stakeholder Participation 
Sec. 131. Global Wildlife Conservation Advisory Committee. 
Sec. 132. International Wildlife Conservation Fund. 
Subtitle D—Improving Federal Wildlife Enforcement 
Sec. 141. Enhancing law enforcement activities. 
TITLE II—GLOBAL WILDLIFE COORDINATION COUNCIL 
Sec. 201. Global Wildlife Coordination Council. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States’ role in confronting 
international challenges, protecting the environment, 
expanding opportunities for people, and articulating 
a vision for global action gives it the opportunity to 
lead an international wildlife conservation effort. 
Our Nation has a longstanding commitment of as-
sisting other countries with the conservation of wild-
life species. Wildlife conservation resources, includ-
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ing trained wildlife professionals, are often unavail-
able or highly limited in many foreign range States 
containing globally important biological resources. 
(2) Conservation activities, in the United 
States, in neighboring countries in North America 
and the Western Hemisphere, and overseas, are re-
quired to fulfill the Federal Government’s obliga-
tions under numerous treaties, laws, agreements, 
and cooperative programs. 
(3) Since 1989, the Secretary of the Interior, 
through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
has 
provided 
wildlife 
conservation 
assistance 
throughout the world by developing locally adapted 
wildlife management and conservation programs, in 
coordination with nongovernmental organizations, 
governments, private businesses, community leaders, 
and other stakeholders, in an effort to maintain, re-
cover, and restore global species diversity, habitats, 
and ecosystems. 
(4) Specifically, the Wildlife Without Borders 
Program administered by the Service has been re-
sponsible for implementation of over 800 conserva-
tion projects through public and private partnerships 
with local government, nongovernmental, and inter-
national wildlife organizations around the world that 
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help to address grassroots threats to numerous en-
dangered or threatened wildlife species, habitats and 
landscapes, and ecosystems. This Program com-
plements other species-specific programs imple-
mented by the Service to conserve global priority 
wildlife species and to provide education, training, 
and outreach to strengthen range State capacity for 
habitat and wildlife conservation throughout the 
world and serve a key role in facilitating broader 
international coordination. 
(5) Notwithstanding the benefits of these pro-
grams, current international wildlife conservation ac-
tivities of the Service and the Federal Government, 
especially technical assistance to range States, ca-
pacity building, coordination and information shar-
ing among law enforcement agencies, screening and 
enforcement of trade restrictions under the Conven-
tion on the International Trade in Endangered Spe-
cies of Wild Fauna and Flora, and lack of knowledge 
by the general public regarding the illegal and 
unsustainable trade in fish and wildlife and the 
many benefits provided by these resources that con-
tribute to healthy landscapes and ecosystem func-
tion, are generally insufficient and in need of im-
provement and focused attention. 
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(6) Although the Secretary is broadly author-
ized to initiate agreements and partnerships to pro-
mote wildlife conservation under the Fish and Wild-
life Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742a et seq.), the En-
dangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
seq.), the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (16 
U.S.C. 661), the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 
U.S.C. 703 et seq.), and other statutes, a specific or-
ganic authority recognizing the role of the Secretary 
in coordinating international wildlife conservation 
activities within the Federal Government will help 
efficiency and effectiveness of existing programs, 
provide for greater collaboration and sharing of re-
sources, and acknowledge and restore international 
wildlife conservation leadership by the United 
States. 
(7) The general public is vastly undereducated 
regarding the importance of species biodiversity, the 
laws, treaties, and regulations surrounding the sale, 
purchase, and transportation of wildlife and wildlife 
products across borders, both international and do-
mestic, associated wildlife and wildlife-related human 
health risks, and the implications, size, and scope of 
the trade in wildlife and wildlife products. The ef-
forts being made to educate the United States public 
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regarding such matters are, to this point, insuffi-
cient and in need of improvement. 
(8) Nongovernmental organizations frequently 
hold a wealth of knowledge, ability, experience, and 
expertise in matters relating to the international 
conservation of wildlife, the zoological and biological 
sciences associated with species survival, the ecologi-
cal issues involved with habitat maintenance, wildlife 
and wildlife-related human health risks, and the edu-
cation of public audiences on issues dealing with 
conservation, habitat protection, and threats to wild-
life. Establishing formal mechanisms through which 
the Federal Government can actively partner with 
those organizations will strengthen and enhance 
those international conservation efforts undertaken 
by the Federal Government. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are— 
(1) to provide specific authority to the Sec-
retary to coordinate activities within the Department 
of the Interior to assert international leadership in 
the active conservation of wildlife species and their 
habitats; 
(2) to assist range States on a global, regional, 
or species basis through a comprehensive approach 
that— 
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