1997 U.S. Code
Title 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 73 - RHINOCEROS AND TIGER CONSERVATION
Sec. 5303 - Definitions

In this chapter—

(1) “CITES” means the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, signed on March 3, 1973, and its appendices;

(2) “conservation” means the use of all methods and procedures necessary to bring rhinoceros and tigers to the point at which there are sufficient populations to ensure that those species do not become extinct, including all activities associated with scientific resource management, such as research, census, law enforcement, habitat protection, acquisition, and management, propagation, live trapping, and transportation;

(3) “Fund” means the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund established under section 5305(a) of this title;

(4) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior; and

(5) “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Agency for International Development.

(Pub. L. 103–391, §4, Oct. 22, 1994, 108 Stat. 4095.)