Believing that a public database of endangered species would
- promote awareness regarding endangered organisms whose endangerment would otherwise be overlooked, in turn encouraging conservation action;
- help member nations tailor their conservation efforts to be more efficient, as knowledge of endangered organisms would be more available; and
- aid further research regarding endangered organisms, in turn further facilitating conservation thereof;
Excited by the further benefits of the World Assembly engaging in its own research vis-a-vis endangered species, which would facilitate member nations' own conservation and research efforts;
The World Assembly enacts as follows, subject to past World Assembly law still in force.
- Database:The Endangered Species Database Institution (ESDI) shall be formed as a subcommittee of the WA Endangered Species Committee and shall carry out the following tasks to the best of its ability,
- Compiling and regularly updating a database, known as the Public Endangered Species Table and hereinafter referred to as the "Table", of all extant and recently extinct species, subspecies, and populations, and all data substantially relevant to past, current, or potential future conservation efforts thereof, including but not limited to natural habitat, diet, threats to survival, predators, genetic details, likelihood of extinction or endangerment, location, and sightings, based on objective information of clear demonstrableness from research, reports, or other evidence practically available to and publicly documented by the ESDI.
- Publishing the Table in full, such that the Table can be accessed for free and breadth of public access to the Table is maximised.
- Using funds from the WA General Fund to complete tasks assigned to the ESDI in this resolution if necessary to do so.
Researchers working for or in member nations are strongly encouraged to use any relevant information in the Table to facilitate their research vis-a-vis endangered species.
- ESDI research:The ESDI may conduct its own research to find new data that would significantly aid in updating the Table within member or consenting non-member nations.
- Each member nation where such research is occurring must, to the best of its ability and in good faith, comply with all requests for information in regard to that research by the ESDI, except for such requests for information whose accessing, provision, or publication is demonstrably likely to compromise national security or personal privacy.
- ESDI access for such research may only be denied to areas within a member nation to which access is restricted for all national residents without specific authorisation for protection of national security or public health or safety, or that area's status as private property, a quarantined area, or a vulnerable culturally or environmentally significant site, by that member nation or an entity therein in charge of preventing unauthorised access to that area, unless the ESDI can clearly demonstrate that such access is to the minimal extent necessary to achieve the aim of that research. If the ESDI does enter such an area, it shall take sufficient precautions to duly minimise or prevent risk to national security, public health or safety, or damage to that private property or culturally or environmentally significant site.
- No member nation or entity therein may wilfully otherwise obstruct the due course of any such research, via action or lack thereof.
- Provision of information: Member nations must, to the best of their ability and in good faith, provide the ESDI with all research and factual data respectively published or discovered within their jurisdiction that they have practical access to, has not already been received by the ESDI, and is substantially relevant to any past, present, or future conservation efforts, unless the accessing, provision, or publication of that information is demonstrably likely to compromise national security or personal privacy. The ESDI shall duly compensate any entity's contribution of said research and data to the ESDI for internal use and maintenance of the Table.
- Protection of sensitive information: Regardless of the other mandates of this resolution, the ESDI shall not place in the Table, make public, or otherwise distribute any information in a manner likely to compromise national security or personal privacy. Nor shall the ESDI place in the Table or itself publish research for which an entity maintains intellectual property rights, absent the informed consent of said entity. For the purposes of this Section, research does not include factual data or information contained therein. This resolution shall not restrict any intellectual property rights of contributing entities to any other use of Section 3 research.
