A/RES/73/343
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 September 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 14
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 September 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.120 and A/73/L.120/Add.1)]
73/343.
Tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 69/314 of 30 July 2015, 70/301 of 9 September 2016
and 71/326 of 11 September 2017 on tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife,
Reaffirming also its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, by which
it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and
transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets,
Reaffirming further the intrinsic value of biological diversity and its various
contributions to sustainable development and human well-being, and recognizing that
wild fauna and flora in their many beautiful and varied forms are an irreplaceable part
of the natural systems of the Earth which must be protected for this generation and
the generations to come,
Seriously concerned about the rate of species extinctions, as indicated in the
findings of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services, 1 and stressing the urgent need to address the unprecedented
global decline in biodiversity, including by preventing the extinction of threatened
species, to improve and sustain their conservation status and to restore and safeguard
ecosystems that provide essential functions and services, including services related
to water, health, livelihoods and well-being,
Remaining concerned, therefore, about the increasing scale of poaching and
illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products and its adverse economic, social and
environmental impacts,
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See Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services,
document IPBES/7/10/Add.1.
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