Tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife A/RES/71/326 Recognizing the important work of the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime, a collaborative effort of the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the World Bank and the World Customs Organization, by, inter alia, providing technical assistance to Member States, Welcoming resolution 2/14 of 27 May 2016 of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme, on the illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products, 8 Welcoming also the efforts of and cooperation between Member States, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, as well as activities of United Nations agencies and other entities, aimed at preventing and fighting illicit trafficking in wildlife, and in this regard taking note of the Paris Declaration of 2013, the London Declaration of 2014, the Kasane Statement of 2015, the Brazzaville Declaration of 2015 and the Hanoi Statement of 2016, Recalling its resolution 68/205 of 20 December 2013, in which it proclaimed 3 March, the day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, as World Wildlife Day, and welcoming the international observance of the Day since 2014 in order to celeb rate and raise awareness of the world’s wild fauna and flora, Welcoming the high-level thematic discussion on the global observance of World Wildlife Day, held on 3 March 2017, which focused on tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife and protecting wild fauna and flora, as well as on the role of youth in protecting wildlife, Recalling its resolution 71/206 of 19 December 2016 on follow-up to the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Cri minal Justice and preparations for the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, and taking note of the importance of the Doha Declaration on Integrating Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice into the Wider United Nations Agenda to Address Social and Economic Challenges and to Promote the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels, and Public Participation, adopted by the Thirteenth Congress, 9 Reaffirming the role of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice as the principal policymaking body of the United Nations for crime prevention and criminal justice matters, Taking note of the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the eleventh session of the United Nations Forum on Forests on t he international arrangement on “The forests we want: beyond 2015” 10 and of the resolution on the international arrangement on forests beyond 2015, 11 adopted by the Forum at its eleventh session, Taking note also of the World Wildlife Crime Report: Trafficking in protected species, prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 201 6, 12 _______________ 8 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/71/25), annex. Resolution 70/174, annex. 10 Economic and Social Council decision 2015/254. 11 Economic and Social Council resolution 2015/33. 12 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.16.XI.9. 9 3/7