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117TH CONGRESS [REPT. 117-675
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
COMBATING ONLINE WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING ACT OF
2021
DECEMBER 30, 2022.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 1546]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1546) to amend the Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt
Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016 to direct the Presidential Task
Force on Wildlife Trafficking to develop recommendations to ad-
dress wildlife trafficking on the internet and on social media, and
to direct the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the
United States Agency for International Development to develop a
strategy to address wildlife trafficking on the internet and on social
media, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the
bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1546 is to direct the Presidential Task Force
on Wildlife Trafficking to develop recommendations to address
wildlife trafficking on the internet and on social media, and to di-
rect the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United
States Agency for International Development to develop a strategy
to address wildlife trafficking on the internet and on social media.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Wildlife trafficking-the illegal poaching, transit, trade, and sale
of animals-has escalated into an international crisis. The illegal
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