From IPOA Sharks to Sharks MoU Under the Convention on Migratory Species: Progress or Clutter in International Environmental Law?

Laura Muir, Natalie Klein
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Abstract The conservation and management of sharks is regulated under different international instruments of varying degrees of specificity and with different legal purposes. Two international instruments targeted at the conservation and management of sharks are the International Plan of Action for Sharks and the Sharks Memorandum of Understanding, which was adopted under the Convention on Migratory Species. This article examines and compares these two non-binding instruments, querying not only what was gained from the adoption of an additional non-binding instrument in the Sharks MoU just ten years after the IPOA Sharks but also how the accumulation of soft law instruments may operate within the framework of international environmental law. We show that such instruments do serve different purposes and can serve the ultimate goal of improving the conservation status of sharks, as well as thickening international environmental law to the benefit of species conservation.
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从IPOA鲨鱼到《迁徙物种公约》下的鲨鱼谅解备忘录:国际环境法的进步还是混乱?
鲨鱼的保护和管理受到不同的国际文书的管制,这些文书具有不同程度的专用性和不同的法律目的。以保护和管理鲨鱼为目标的两项国际文书是《鲨鱼国际行动计划》和《鲨鱼谅解备忘录》,这两项文书是根据《迁徙物种公约》通过的。本文考察和比较了这两份不具约束力的文书,不仅询问在《国际行动计划》(IPOA)《鲨鱼》签署仅仅十年之后,《鲨鱼谅解备忘录》中通过了一份额外的不具约束力的文书,而且还询问了软法律文书的积累如何在国际环境法框架内发挥作用。我们表明,这些文书确实有不同的目的,并且可以为改善鲨鱼的保护状况以及加强国际环境法以有利于物种保护的最终目标服务。
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期刊介绍: Drawing upon the findings from island biogeography studies, Norman Myers estimates that we are losing between 50-200 species per day, a rate 120,000 times greater than the background rate during prehistoric times. Worse still, the rate is accelerating rapidly. By the year 2000, we may have lost over one million species, counting back from three centuries ago when this trend began. By the middle of the next century, as many as one half of all species may face extinction. Moreover, our rapid destruction of critical ecosystems, such as tropical coral reefs, wetlands, estuaries, and rainforests may seriously impair species" regeneration, a process that has taken several million years after mass extinctions in the past.
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