Development of The Agreement
To implement the decision of the Conference of the Parties of CMS to list the Gorilla on Appendix I of the Convention and taking into consideration the unfavourable conservation status and the conviction that the Gorilla would significantly benefit from international cooperation that could be achieved by a multilateral Agreement, an Article IV Agreement was concluded in 2007. The text of this legally binding Agreement was negotiated on a meeting in Paris between 22-26 October 2007, under the auspices of CMS and attended by nine of the ten Gorilla range States. The Final Act was signed on the 24th October 2007 and entered into force on 1 June 2008, after ratification by three range States. As of August 2012, the Gorilla Agreement has six parties.
Signatures without reservation :
- Central African Republic (26 October 2007)
- Republic of the Congo (26 October 2007)
- Nigeria (5 March 2008)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo (25 April 2008)
- Rwanda (25 september 1234* Gabon (1 November 2008)
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