RECOGNIZING also that the financial benefits derived from trophy hunting of a limited number of specimens will benefit the conservation of the species directly and provide additional incentives for conservation and habitat protection, when such hunting is done within the framework of national conservation and management plans and programmes RECOGNIZING that effective conservation, management and monitoring plans and programmes are in place in a number of range States of the black rhinoceros and that some populations are recovering and can sustain limited offtakes through trophy hunting RECALLING that, in accordance with Resolution Conf. 9.14 (Rev. CoP15) 1 adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its ninth meeting (Fort Lauderdale, 1994) and revised at its 11th, 13th, 14th and 15th meetings (Gigiri, 2000 Bangkok, 2004 The Hague, 2007 Doha, 2010), range States of rhinoceros species should develop and implement conservation and management plans for the species concerned, utilizing all available expertise and resources RECOGNIZING also that the species is recovering and effectively managed in other parts of its range RECOGNIZING that the black rhinoceros is threatened in parts of its range by illegal hunting, and fragmentation and loss of its habitat RECALLING that the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) was included in Appendix I in 1977
Establishment of export quotas for black rhinoceros hunting trophies
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