---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 7642"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "7642"
heading: "Anti-trafficking programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/7642"
units:
  - "Chapter 95 — Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking"
  - "Subchapter IV — Programs to Address the Escalating Wildlife Trafficking Crisis"
---

# §7642. Anti-trafficking programs

- (a) **Investigative capacity building—** The Secretary of State and the [Administrator](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=a) of the United States Agency for International Development, in collaboration with the heads of other relevant United States agencies and communities, regions, and governments in [focus countries](/usc/16/7601.md?p=5), may design and implement programs in [focus countries](/usc/16/7601.md?p=5) to carry out the recommendations made in the strategic plan required under [section 7631(a)(2) of this title](/usc/16/7631.md?p=a-2) among other goals, with clear and measurable targets and indicators of success, to increase the capacity of wildlife law enforcement and customs and border security officers in [focus countries](/usc/16/7601.md?p=5).
- (b) **Transnational programs—** The Secretary of State and the [Administrator](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=a) of the United States Agency for International Development, in collaboration with other relevant United States agencies, nongovernmental partners, and international bodies, and in collaboration with communities, regions, and governments in [focus countries](/usc/16/7601.md?p=5), may design and implement programs, including support for Wildlife Enforcement Networks, in [focus countries](/usc/16/7601.md?p=5) to carry out the recommendations made in the strategic plan required under [section 7631(a)(2) of this title](/usc/16/7631.md?p=a-2), among other goals, to better understand and combat the transnational trade in illegal wildlife.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–231, title IV, § 402, Oct. 7, 2016, 130 Stat. 954.)