Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60
§7641 Anti-poaching Programs
Title 16 › Chapter 95— ELIMINATE, NEUTRALIZE, AND DISRUPT WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING › Subchapter IV— PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS THE ESCALATING WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING CRISIS › § 7641
Summary
Under the strategic plan, the Secretary of State and USAID may help countries that show ability, willingness, and need to make wildlife law enforcement stronger. Congress supports continuing to provide defense items (not significant military equipment), services, and training to African security forces to fight wildlife trafficking and poaching.
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Title 16, §7641
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(a)The Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, in collaboration with the heads of other relevant United States agencies and nongovernmental partners where appropriate, may provide assistance to focus countries to carry out the recommendations made in the strategic plan required by section 7631(a)(2) of this title, among other goals, to improve the effectiveness of wildlife law enforcement in regions and countries that have demonstrated capacity, willingness, and need for assistance.
(b)It is the sense of Congress that the United States should continue to provide defense articles (not including significant military equipment), defense services, and related training to appropriate security forces of countries of Africa for the purposes of countering wildlife trafficking and poaching.
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16 U.S.C. § 7641
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60