Joint Assembly of the Convention concluded between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) - Resolutions adopted on Southern Africa (ACP-EU/2124/97/fin.)
Date: 1997-03-20
Institutions: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, European Parliament
Subjects: ACP-EU Joint Assembly, Southern Africa, conservation of resources, protection of animal life, protection of plant life













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21997P2124

Joint Assembly of the Convention concluded between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) - Resolutions adopted on Southern Africa (ACP-EU/2124/97/fin.)  


Official Journal C 308 , 09/10/1997 P. 0044 - 0045 





Joint Assembly of the Convention concluded between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) - Resolutions adopted on Southern Africa (ACP-EU/2124/97/fin.)The ACP-EU Joint Assembly,- meeting in Brussels from 17 to 20 March 1997,A. aware of the existing evidence that there is a strong dependence on wild resources by rural poor and that these resources have a potential to serve as an engine for sustainable rural development,B. considering that Africa's greatest environmental threat is the loss of soils and woodlands productivity caused by the increasingly frequent cultivation and grazing of wild lands which are marginal to agriculture,C. aware that the conservation of wild species and habitat will succeed in the long run only if it can generate revenue as an economically competitive form of land use and that the value of wild species must be enhanced if it is to become an economically competitive land use,D. aware of the success that integrated conservation and development programmes based on the management of wild species by rural communities are having in the Southern African region,E. acknowledging the ability of such community conservation processes to provide real and tangible benefits to communities through the sustainable use of the wild resources,F. considering that Zimbabwe will host the Global Biodiversity Forum and the CITES COP 10 in June 1997,1. Requests the European Union to explicitly support African community-based natural resource management programmes aiming at conserving natural resources through rural communities empowerment and sustainable use of wild species;2. Requests the European Union to implement a biodiversity conservation policy consistent with the principles of sustainable use and equitable sharing of benefits of world's biological diversity and the biodiversity conservation strategies of Southern African nations which aim at reconciling the conservation of biological diversity with the improvement of the quality of live of their rural poor;3. Requests the Member States of the European Union to support at the CITES COP 10 proposals submitted by Southern African nations seeking the conservation of wild species of fauna and flora through the realisation of its full economic value for conservation and development purposes;4. Urges the Parties to CITES attending next COP 10 to base their decisions on the best scientific information available so that Southern African conservation and rural development programmes based on the sustainable management of wild species are not jeopardised by the imposition of Western values which often ignore human needs;5. Instructs its Co-Presidents to forward this resolution to the ACP-EU Council, to the Commission, the CITES Secretariat and the Biodiversity Convention Secretariat.