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Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2021

H.R. 6059 · 117th Congress · Nov 19, 2021 · Lineage

A BILL

To support wildlife conservation, improve anti-trafficking enforcement, provide dedicated funding at no expense to taxpayers, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

(a)
Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2021”.
(b)
Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is the following:

Sec. 2 Definitions

In this Act:
(1)
CITES— The term CITES means the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (27 UST 1087; TIAS 8249).
(2)
Country of concern; Focus country; wildlife trafficking— The terms country of concern, focus country, and wildlife trafficking have the meanings given those terms in section 2 of the Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016 (16 U.S.C. 7601).
(3)
Shark— The term shark means any species of the orders Hexanchiformes, Pristiophoriformes, Squaliformes, Squatiniformes, Heterodontiforms, Orectolobiformes, Lamniformes, and Carchariniformes.
(4)
Import; species; take; wildlife— The terms import, species, take, and wildlife have the meaning given those terms in section 3 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1532).