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 Article VII 



The Contracting Governments shall adopt appropriate measures for 

 the protection of migratory birds of economic or aesthetic value or to 

 prevent the threatened extinction of any given species. Adequate 

 measures shall be adopted which will permit, in so far as the respective 

 governments may see fit, a rational utilization of migratory birds for 

 the purpose of sports as well as for food, commerce, and industry, and 

 for scientific study and investigation. 



Article VIII 



The protection of the species mentioned in the Annex to the present 

 Convention, [^] is declared to be of special urgency and importance. 

 Species included therein shall be protected as completely as possible, 

 and their hunting, killing, capturing, or "taking, shalfbe allowed only 

 with the permission of the appropriate government authorities in the 

 country. Such permission shall be granted only under special cir- 

 cumstances, in order to further scientific purposes, or when essential 

 for the administration of the area in which the animal or plant is 

 found. 



Article IX 



Each Contracting Government shall take the necessary measures to 

 control and regulate the importation, exportation and transit of pro- 

 tected fauna or flora or any part thereof oy the following means: 



1. The issuing of certificates authorizing the exportation or transit 

 of protected species of flora or fauna, or parts thereof. 



2. The prohibition of the importation of any species of fauna or 

 flora or any part thereof protected by the country of origin unless 

 accompanied by a certificate of lawful exportation as provided for in 

 Paragraph 1 of this Article. . ' 



Article X 



1. The terms of this convention shall in no way be interpreted as 

 replacing international agreements previously entered into by one or 

 more of the High Contracting Powers. 



2. The Pan American Union shall notify the Contracting Parties 

 of any information relevant to the purposes of the present Convention 

 communicated to it hj any national museums or by any organizations, 

 national or international, established within their jurisdiction and 

 interested in the purposes of the Convention. 



, Article XI 



1. The original of the present Convention in Spanish, English, 

 Portuguese and French shall be deposited with the Pan American 

 Union and opened for signature by the American Governments on 

 October 12, 1940. 



' [The Annex comprises the lists of species transmitted by interested Governments to the Pan American 

 Union, Washington, D.C., depository for the Convention. These lists are printed in Treaty Series 981 pages 

 27-77 and In 3 Bevans 635-660. It is understood by this Government that such lists are to be 

 considered as flexible rather than permanent in character and may from time to time be 

 altered by the respective Governments by the addition or removal of such species from their 

 several lists as changes and conditions may seem to them to warrant.] 



