www.wcs.org

WCS-International saves wildlife and wildlands by understanding and resolving critical problems that threaten key species and large, wild ecosystems around the world. Our Hunting and Wildlife Trade program includes 66 projects in 27 countries in Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and throughout Asia.

WCS's core strengths relevant to CAWT include:

• Long-term commitment to protecting wildlife at key sites across the world, including 20 key landscapes in Asia;
• Working along the full trade chain, to control wildlife trade from field sites to markets;
• Working to elucidate the links between wildlife trade, and human and wildlife health;
• Providing technical advice to governments and other relevant local, national and international bodies on legislation and policy relevant to hunting and wildlife trade;
• Capacity building for management agencies along the trade chain;
• Basing our approach on science, and in-depth knowledge of the issues, and local socioeconomic, cultural and political context of the trade.