(a) shall provide a plan of action that identifies specific 
and measurable goals, benchmarks, and time frames for— 
(1) advancing conservation in the world’s most 
ecologically and economically important terrestrial 
and marine ecosystems; 
(2) supporting distinct hotspot regions that pro-
vide a high level of economic benefit to human com-
munities as well as a high concentration of genetic 
and other natural resources; 
(3) helping developing countries address illegal, 
unreported, and unregulated industrial fishing where 
economies are negatively impacted by depleted fish 
stocks; 
(4) safeguarding natural areas that provide 
fresh water to developing countries; 
(5) supporting enforcement efforts against ille-
gal logging in centers of the illegal logging trade; 
(6) supporting enforcement efforts against 
poaching and unlawful wildlife trafficking oper-
ations; 
(7) facilitating and leveraging the economic and 
conservation benefits that derive from properly man-
aged international hunting, angling, and wildlife ob-
servation tourism; 
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(8) stabilizing or reversing renewable natural 
resource scarcity and degradation trends in regions 
that are vulnerable to conflict, instability, or mass 
migration from natural resource depletion and wild-
life trafficking; 
(9) expanding substantially the amount of eco-
nomically and ecologically significant forest in devel-
oping countries; and 
(10) 
reducing 
the 
rate 
of 
erosion 
and 
desertification in developing countries where soil loss 
is resulting in severe impacts to the economy, food 
security, or stability. 
(c) COORDINATION
AND LEVERAGE.—The Inter-
national Conservation Strategy shall coordinate and lever-
age the participation of relevant executive branch agen-
cies, other countries, the private sector, and private vol-
untary organizations in ways that— 
(1) reflect Government-wide policy that encom-
passes the programs of, and reduces duplication 
among, executive branch agencies that influence, en-
gage in, or support international conservation; 
(2) provide a plan to identify and improve 
United States policies that could be undermining the 
conservation of critical natural resources and bio-
diversity abroad; and 
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(3) seek to encourage and leverage participation 
from governments of developing countries and other 
governments, the private sector, private voluntary 
organizations, and international organizations to im-
plement the Strategy. 
(d) ASSESSING AND IMPROVING EFFECTIVENESS.— 
The International Conservation Strategy shall include a 
description of the performance and efficiency measures de-
veloped pursuant to section 202(a)(2)(C) and a process 
for their utilization. 
(e) COUNTRY OWNERSHIP.—In preparing the Inter-
national Conservation Strategy, the Interagency Working 
Group on International Conservation shall ensure that the 
Strategy is appropriate to local needs and conditions and 
incorporates the views of partner countries, and describes 
a means for local citizens to participate in the implementa-
tion and the setting of priorities of such programs in the 
field. The International Conservation Strategy should 
build upon partner country development plans and re-
gional strategies. 
(f) REVISION.—Not later than 4 years after the 
International Conservation Strategy is established, and 
every 4 years thereafter, the Strategy shall be revised to 
reflect— 
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(1) new information collected pursuant to the 
implementation of the Strategy; and 
(2) advances in the understanding of biological 
diversity and the economic and security impacts of 
renewable natural resource degradation. 
SEC. 202. POLICY IMPLEMENTATION. 
(a) INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP
ON INTER-
NATIONAL CONSERVATION.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
President shall establish the Interagency Working 
Group on International Conservation (hereafter re-
ferred to as the ‘‘working group’’), which shall in-
clude the participation of the executive branch agen-
cies that affect, oversee, or implement programs that 
conduct or support international conservation activi-
ties or affect the ability of the United States to 
achieve the goals of the International Conservation 
Strategy. 
(2) DUTIES.—The working group shall— 
(A) develop, through utilization of the re-
port completed pursuant to section 101(b) and 
appropriate public and agency input, the Inter-
national Conservation Strategy established pur-
suant to section 201(a); 
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(B) identify measures to enhance program 
and policy coordination among the relevant ex-
ecutive branch agencies in implementing the 
Strategy by ensuring that each relevant execu-
tive branch agency undertakes programs pri-
marily in those areas where each such agency 
has the greatest expertise, technical capabilities, 
and potential for success, and ensuring that 
agencies avoid duplication of effort; 
(C) work with the Office of Management 
and Budget to evaluate the effectiveness of the 
international conservation programs of the rel-
evant executive branch agencies in meeting the 
goals of the Strategy by developing and apply-
ing specific performance measurements, includ-
ing assessments of— 
(i) program effectiveness; 
(ii) program efficiency and cost-effec-
tiveness; 
(iii) program accessibility and trans-
parency; and 
(iv) agency overhead or project admin-
istration costs for programs operating in 
the field; 
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