We welcome WWF-Guianas Forests and Environmental Conservation Project assistance to improve our wildlife (i.e. wild fauna) export regulation system. This system, which is based on voluntary export quota, was developed in 1985 together with the other Suriname stakeholders of the international wildlife trade, namely the Nature Preservation Commission, the Service for Import, Export and Foreign Exchange Control (IUD), the Customs, the Veterinary Service and the contemporary wildlife exporters. Note that the voluntary export-quota system was adopted by CITES Secretariat and (later on) by the CITES Conference of Parties. The long term objective of this export regulation which is parallel to that of the Convention on Biological Diversity is "to ensure that trade continues at sustainable levels, thus providing economic benefits to the country without jeopardizing the survival of any species". (See also Russell Mittermeir et al. 1990. Conservation Action Plan for Suriname.) This document is a follow-up of the 1997 report by S. Nash (Evaluation of the Trade in Wild Animals and Plants. Consultant's Mission Report UNDP/PRIF-GEF Suriname Subcontract 5 sub B) and is part of a subcontract with WWF on base of the GEF Project "Conservation of Globally Significant Forest Ecosystems in Suriname's Guyana Shield Bio-region" (GEF Project Number: SUR/99/G31/A/1G/31). The views expressed in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Nature Conservation Division of the Suriname Forest Service. Paramaribo, 9 September
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