A/RES/75/311. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2021

• Year: 2021
• Resolution Number: A/RES/75/311
• Session: 75th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES /75/ 311

General Assembly

Distr. : Genera l

26 J uly 2021

21-102 42 (E) 300 721

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Seventy -fifth sess ion

Agen da item 14

Integr ated and coo rdinated impl ementation of and

follow -up to the o utcomes of th e major Unit ed Nations

confere nces and summ its in the e conomic, so cial and

related fields

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 23 July 2021

[witho ut reference to a Mai n Commit tee (A/7 5/L. 116 and A/75/L.116/ Add.1 )]

75/311. Tackling illicit trafficking i n wild life

The General Assembly ,

Reaf firm ing i ts resolut ions 69/3 14 of 3 0 July 2015 , 70/301 o f 9 Septemb er 2016,

71/3 26 of 11 Se ptember 2017 and 73/3 43 of 16 S eptembe r 201 9 on tackl ing i llicit

traff icking i n wildli fe,

Reaf firming also its resol ution 70/1 of 25 S eptembe r 201 5, ent itled

“Tran sforming our wo rld: the 2030 Ag enda for Sustain able De velopme nt”, by which

it adop ted a compre hensive, fa r-reach ing and peop le-cent red set of univ ersal and

tran sformati ve Susta inable Developm ent Go als and targets,

Reaf firming furt her the intrin sic value of biolog ical diversi ty a nd i ts v arious

cont ribution s to sustai nable dev elopmen t and huma n well- being, an d recogni zing that

wild f auna and fl ora in the ir many be autiful a nd varied f orms are an irreplac eable par t

of the n atural systems of the E arth wh ich m ust be prote cted f or thi s gene ration and

the g enerati ons to c ome,

Serio usly concer ned about the rate of specie s ex tinction s, a s ind icated in the

findi ngs of the Intergov ernment al Sci ence-P olicy Platform on Biodiver sity a nd

Ecos ystem Ser vices, an d stress ing the urg ent need t o addres s the unpr ecedente d

glob al de cline in b iodiver sity, in cluding by preve nting the extincti on of thr eatened

spec ies, to i mprove a nd susta in their conserva tion sta tus and t o restor e and saf eguard

ecosyst ems t hat p rovide essent ial fu nctions and servic es, i ncluding serv ices r elated

to wa ter, heal th, live lihoods and wel l-bein g,

Rema ining conc erned, the refore, abo ut the increa sing scale of po aching and

illeg al tr ade i n wi ldlife and wildlif e pro ducts and its advers e eco nomic, socia l and

envi ronment al impac ts,