Manila Declaration

Executive Order No. 247 was based significantly on the premise and the proposed requirements laid out in the Manila Declaration. Subsequently, the Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act of 2001 (RA 9147)... 

The Rio Convention (1992) and the Manila Declaration which supplements it (1992), do not seem to take account of the oceanic zones without sovereignty, such as Antarctica or the abyssal hydrothermal zones located outside any exclusive economic region. See, on this subject, the Report of the Workshop on Bioprospection in the High Seas organized in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 28-29 November 2003, the text of which can be downloaded from the Internet. 

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