International Meeting Aims to Set North American Wildlife Conservation Agenda

Building upon a 70 year record of cooperative efforts in wildlife conservation and management, wildlife professionals from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service will meet with counterparts from Mexico and Canada this week to outline a 2011-12 wildlife conservation agenda for shared wildlife resources in North America. This effort will take place under the auspices of the Canada/Mexico/US Trilateral Committee for Wildlife and Ecosystem Conservation and Management, established by the three countries in 1995.

At the request of the Government of Mexico, the annual meeting is taking place this year in the state of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, May 16-20, 2011. Oaxaca is one of Mexico