Constitutional Law France

Paris, Marie-Luce; Foulon, Julie; Pouillaude, Hugo-Bernard; Sterck, Julien; Fauvarque, Juliette; Keane, E

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3349254

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“…Prefectural Decrees can be more easily modified or changed according to Prefect policy, however the process to change a Ministerial Decree is relatively long and complicated. 257 Although there is a quota of zero for hunting jaguar and puma, in the case of repeated attacks on domestic animals, authorized public can capture the responsible animal and move it. 258 Legal hunting of jaguar is permitted as this Prefectural Decree does not apply to the Amazonian National Park, in the southern part of French Guiana and in the "Zones of Common Use Rights" outside the Park which provide for the traditional uses of these areas by the Indigenous Peoples.…”

Section: Infra-legal Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Range-Wide Analysis of Legal Instruments Applicable to Jaguar Conservation

Kretser¹,

Nuñez-Salas²,

Polisar³

et al. 2022

Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

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The jaguar (Panthera onca) is one of five Panthera cats facing global conservation concerns. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) considers the jaguar to be near threatened and its global population has declined by an estimated 25% in 25 years. Current jaguar populations range from Mexico to Argentina with some individuals confirmed in the United States. For this article we compile and review the legal protections categorized in the constitution, national laws, and infralegal level in each of those countries to identify the presence of government approved endangered species lists, specific jaguar protection laws, government approved jaguar management plans and human-wildlife conflict regulations, and the administrative and criminal sanctions for hunting and wildlife trade. We also note which laws allowed for legal killing of jaguar for hunting, subsistence use or conflict. We recommend that countries adopt jaguar specific protection laws, establish and update clear administrative and criminal penalties, modify existing law language to ensure improved adoption, enforcement and prosecution, recognize non-binding management practices through legal channels and harmonize legal policies across countries. We propose additional reviews on illegal wildlife trafficking, human-wildlife conflict, and enforcement, among others, to continue identifying legal gaps. This first range-wide assessment of and perspective on jaguar legislation illustrates opportunities for strengthening legal protections by comparing across the variety of structures and approaches employed to conserve this important species.

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Section: Infra-legal Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%