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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 323
110TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 110-212
ASIAN ELEPHANT CONSERVATION ACT OF 2007
OCTOBER 29, 2007.-Ordered to be printed
Mrs. BOXER, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 465]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred a bill (H.R. 465) to reauthorize the Asian Elephant Con-
servation Act of 1997, having considered the same reports favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do
pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
H.R. 465, Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 2007, would reau-
thorize through 2012 the Asian Elephant Conservation Act. Asian
elephants are listed on Appendix I of the Convention on Inter-
national Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES) which prohibits any international trade of this endangered
species. Some sub-populations of Asian elephant may be stable or
recovering, but most remain extremely vulnerable in the wild.
Fewer than 40,000 Asian elephants remain throughout the forests
and savannahs of Asia. Unlike African elephants, Asian elephants
are captured, tamed and utilized for timber harvest, forest clearing
and agriculture. Approximately 16,000 animals are in captive sta-
tus. Populations remain under stress from habitat loss, human en-
croachment and poaching for illegal ivory and bushmeat. A signifi-
cant gender imbalance complicates recovery efforts.
H.R. 465 would enable this international wildlife conservation
program to continue to receive federal appropriations through
2012. The program provides matching grants to non-federal part-
ners for conservation activities, including scientific research, habi-
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