UNCoESB

Resolution History

Overview

The United Nations Conservation of Endangered Species Bill (UNCoESB) resolution was originally drafted and billed as a replacement for the Banning Whaling and Protection of Dolphins Act. The goal was to come up with a comprehensive endangered species protection regulation that would protect as many species as possible, essentially consolidating current and future resolutions into one larger subject (this was previously done for natural disasters by the Natural Disaster Act).

Proposal Campaign

UN Debate

Resolution Text

In these times of Population growth expanding into environmentally sensitive areas of the NS world, with natural habitats being encroached. With over fishing and hunting of game running unchecked, a side effect is the ever greater numbers of animals on the brink of extinction. It is with these concerns we enact the United Nations Conservation of Endangered Species Bill, UNCoESB

Article 1: The Executive.

On ratification by the General Assembly, the UN shall set up an executive body to monitor NS World wildlife numbers. The Executive shall decide what numbers apply to each level of animal population and what Species receive the title "Endangered" and the protections the title affords. The Executive shall control funding and see it is used where it is most required.

Article 2: Quotas.

International best practise should be adopted in forming quotas and heavy penalties should be applied if these quotas are broken. Imposition of quotas should ensure that total bans on fisheries or game hunting of a specific species should be a rare event.

Article 3: Education.

National governments are charged with educating local populations in the benefits of conservation of species that are heavily hunted within their national boundaries.

Article 4: Species of National Importance.

Where there are species regarded with a sense of national importance, National governments may apply conservation orders on that species within its own national boundaries and impose national restrictions to hunting of that species. These restrictions shall only apply within the National boundary and are not applicable to neighbouring Nations unless an agreement has been set by the neighbouring countries. National Governments may set penalties for breaches of these national conservation orders.

Article 5: Monitoring

The UN in conjunction with National and Regional Governments, Non Governmental Organisations and Environmental agencies shall constantly monitor closely wildlife numbers in their area of concern. These numbers shall be tallied yearly so they may show increases or decreases in the numbers of wildlife. If considerable decrease or a recurring trend of decrease in population is noted local conservation attempts shall be instituted at a national level aided by local populations and national agencies.

Article 6: Capture and Breeding.

If local populations decrease to a worrying level then local Zoological and Marine specialists shall step in to capture and breed, in an attempt to reverse the decrease in numbers. Also, if larger populations of the same animal exist in another part of the NS world steps should be taken to introduce new blood lines to the endangered species. Local Bans shall be instituted on hunting of the endangered animal until such time as it is deemed safe to do so. Quotas shall then be applied to the hunting of the recovering species.

Article 7: Full Escalation.

Where a Species of animal has come dangerously close to world extinction levels, The UN shall impose a Full escalation of Protection to the species. All hunting of the species shall be expressly forbidden. Full funding shall be granted for the escalation of steps to conserve the species and to rebuild its population to an acceptable level for the species to recover. Criminal charges shall be brought against any individual or group in contravention to this.

We hereby enact the UNCoESB.

The Author wishes to thank the Nation of “Yeldan UN Mission” whose assistance has been invaluable.

Votes For: 9,396

Votes Against: 4,503

Implemented: Fri Sep 2 2005

Gameplay Impacts

This resolution had no significant impacts on changing the way NationStates is played. However, like several previous resolutions, a poll asking nations if they voted yes, no, or abstained was attached to the official resolution debate. With 170 responses by the time debate had closed it is possible to compare the results of the UN forum poll to the official vote totals to address the question: "How representative is the UN forum of UN votes?"

Unlike those previous resolution polls, this poll also looked into greater detail the difference in voting trends between UN Delegates (whom carry additional votes) and UN Members, but dividing the responses between these two groups.

Nations participating in the UN forum debates were asked to disclose their vote: yes, no, or abstain as part of an official survey. The independent and combined UN forum voting trends for UN Delegates and UN Members are presented above. On the UN forum, 104 nations voted for the resolution, 59 against, and 7 nations abstained. This totals include the combined votes of UN Delegates and UN Members. The abstentions are not included in calculating the percentage of votes.

The UN forum vote (including abstentions) of just UN Delegates was 67% in favour compared to a 60% support from non-UN Dlegates. Given the larger number of non-UN Delegates that participated in the UN forum poll, the combined percentage of support on the UN forum was 61%. For this particular resolution, the difference in relative support (with UN Delegates being more likely to have cast votes in favour) between UN Delegates and UN Members on the forum is considered significant.

The final overall UN ("official") vote was 68% of the votes cast being in favour, while the combined UN forum vote (including abstentions) was 64% of the votes cast (for or against) being in favour. In this particular case it appears that the UN forum debate and poll were representative of the entire UN vote. However, like other comparisons between the UN forum and overall UN vote, the trend in this survey was that the UN forum is much less likely to support a resolution than the overall UN.

Additional Materials

• UNCoESB Official Thread and Poll UN Floor Debate
• Conservation of wildlife bill. First Draft. Draft Proposal Discussions
• UN Timeline
• United Nations