Canada-U.S. Sign Endangered Species Agreement

On April 7, 1997, U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Canadian Environment Minister Sergio Marchi concluded a bilateral agreement providing a framework for cooperation in the protection and recovery of endangered species at risk between the two countries. While short on a meaningful enforcement provisions, it signals a more meaningful cooperation in a regime that has important potential enforcement cooperation and adds to the existing enforcement mechanisms ... [more]