Wildlife Conservation and Management Act 2016.

The aim and purpose of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act 2016 are: to create a supportive mechanism cognisant of the national goals for wildlife protection, conservation, management and sustainable use; to create a national framework and mechanisms governing the local and international trade in all species of Guyana’s wildlife; to implement the primary provisions of the Convention (this is required by Article VIII of the Convention); and to provide a framework of licensing and decisions which support core principles of transparency, certainty, natural justice and fairness.
The Act established the Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission. The Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission shall be a body corporate, and the provisions of the Seventh Schedule shall affect the constitution and proceedings of, and otherwise about, the Commission. The Minister may give to the Commission directions – (a) as to the policy to be followed by the Commission in the performance of its functions, and the Commission shall comply with such orders. (b) for the organization of the Commission to enable it to discharge its functions under this Act, including the size of the establishment, the employment of staff and the terms of employment, the provision of equipment and funds, and the Commission shall comply with such directions.
The Commission’s functions include: taking such steps as are necessary for the protection, conservation, management and sustainable use of wildlife; the management and conservation of nature against over-exploitation through importation, exportation, re-exportation and introduction from the sea; advising the Minister on matters relating to the protection, conservation, management, and sustainable use of species of wildlife; the importation, exportation, re-exportation and introduction from the sea of species of wildlife; the protection of endangered or threatened ecosystems and habitats of species of wildlife; areas for dedication to wildlife conservation and the cancellation of such dedications; the implementation and enforcement of the Convention granting, amending and cancelling licences, permits and certificates in respect of activities related to species of wildlife; monitoring and enforcing licences, permits and certificate compliance; determining the annual ‘closed season’ time frame for the hunting, trapping and trade of species of wild fauna; facilitating, promoting and supporting mechanisms whereby local Indigenous villages may participate in the effective protection, conservation, management and sustainable use of wildlife on their titles lands; establishing policies and procedures for the protection, conservation, management and sustainable use of wildlife by and for the benefit of all citizens of Guyana and in particular the communities and villages living in proximity to wildlife; causing to be established facilities for the quarantining of imported species of fauna and flora including those species imported for the purpose of re-exportation; carrying out such other duties, functions, and powers as may be prescribed or assigned to it under any other law and performing such other functions as may be given to the Commission by the Minister.
The last part of the Act regards the offenses and penalties applicable to the breach of specific provisions of the Act.