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PUBLIC LAW 9 3 - 2 0 5 - D E C. 28, 1973

Nation's inteinatioiial ooniinitments and to better safeguarding, for the IxMiefit of all citizens, the Nation's heritage in fish and wildlife. (b) PuRPOSKS.—The purposes of this Act are to provide a means Vvhereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserAcd, to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered species and threatened species, and to take such steps as may Ix' appropriate to achieve the purposes of the treaties and conventions set forth in subsection (a) of this section. (c) Poi.icY.—It is further declared to be the policy of Congress that all Federal departments and agencies shall seek to conserve endangered species and threatened species and shall utilize their anthorities in furtherance of the purposes of this Act. DEFINITIONS

SKC. 8. For the purposes of this Act— (1) The term "commercial activity" means all activities of industry and trade, including, but not limited to, the buying or selling of commodities and activities conducted for the purpose of facilitating such buying and selling. (2) The terms "conserve'*, "conserving", and "conservation'' n^ean to use and the use of all methods and procedures which are necessary to bring any endangered species or threatened species to the point at which the measures provided pursuant to this Act are no Iq^iger necessary. Such methods and procedures include, but are not limited to, all activities associated with scientific resources management such as research, census, law enforcement, habitat acquisition and maintenance, propagation, live trapping, and transplantation, and. in the extraordinary case where population pressures within a given ecosystem cannot be otherwise relieved, may include regulated taking. (3) The term "Convention" means the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, signed on March 3, 1973, and the appendices thereto. (4) The term "endangered species" means an}- species which is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range other than a species of the Class Insecta determined by the Secretary to constitute a pest whose protection under the provisions of this Act would present an overAvhelming and overriding risk to man. (5) The term "fish or wildlife means any member of the animal kingdom, including without limitation any mammal, fish, bird (including any migratory, nonmigratory. or endangered bird for which protection is also aiforded by treaty or other international agreement), amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, arthropod or other invertebrate, and includes any part, product, egg, or oli'spring thereof, or the dead body or parts thereof. (6) The term "foreign commerce includes, among other things, any transaction— (A) between persons within one foreign country; (B) between persons in two or more foreign countries; (C) between a person within the United States and a person in a foreign country; or

(D) between persons within the United States, where the fish and wildlife in question are moving in any country or J countries outside the United States. (7) The term "import'' means to land on, bring into, or introduce into, or attemj^t to land on, bring into, or introduce into, any

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