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>Combating Wildlife Trafficking: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Use of Financial Rewards, Report to the Ranking Member, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate
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Combating Wildlife Trafficking: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Use of Financial Rewards, Report to the Ranking Member, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate
Wildlife trafficking--the poaching and illegal trade of plants, fish, and wildlife--is a multibillion-dollar, global criminal activity that imperils thousands of species. FWS (Departments of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) and NOAA (Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) enforce laws prohibiting wildlife trafficking that authorize the agencies to pay financial rewards for information about such illegal activities. GAO (United States Government Accountability Office) was asked to review FWS's and NOAA's use of financial rewards to combat wildlife trafficking. This report examines (1) laws that authorize FWS and NOAA to pay rewards for information on wildlife trafficking and the extent to which the agencies paid such rewards from fiscal years 2007 through 2017, (2) the agencies' reward policies, (3) information available to the public on rewards, and (4) the extent to which the agencies reviewed the effectiveness of their use of rewards. GAO reviewed laws, examined FWS and NOAA policies and public communications on rewards, analyzed agency reward data for fiscal years 2007 through 2017 and assessed their reliability, interviewed FWS and NOA officials, and compared agency policies and public communications on rewards to federal internal control standards.
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