Local wildlife conservation and management is to be managed by the Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission, which has been created under the recently passed Wildlife Conservation and Management Bill.
The bill, which was passed on August 9, vests the commission with the responsibility for managing the country’s compliance with the provisions of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which has been ratified by Guyana.
The explanatory memorandum of the Bill explains that the Commission, which has the power to enforce the provisions of the Act, is to be funded by a Wildlife General Fund, which the Act also establishes.