S.L. 549.44 ст. 34Ex situ conservation.

The competent authority shall, as far as possible and as appropriate, and predominantly for the purpose of complementing in situ measures:

(a) promote measures for the ex situ conservation of components of biological diversity, preferably in the country or island of origin of such components;

(b) promote the establishment and maintenance of facilities for ex situ conservation of and research on plants, animals and micro-organisms;

(c) adopt measures for the recovery and rehabilitation of threatened species and for their re-introduction into their original natural habitats under appropriate conditions; and

(d) regulate, manage or liase with managers of biological resource collections for ex situ conservation purposes so as not to threaten ecosystems and in situ populations of species, except where special temporary ex situ measures are required under paragraph (c).