Rules and planning

Permits, ethics and genetic resources

Nagoya, CITES paperwork and the approvals a field project needs before it starts.

• Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House

  The official Nagoya Protocol platform: find a country's ABS focal point, access measures and permit requirements before you collect anything

• Nagoya Protocol explanatory guide

  IUCN guide to what access and benefit sharing obligations mean for a researcher moving genetic material across a border

• ABS Clearing-House guide for researchers

  Step-by-step walkthrough with a checklist, for a field researcher who has never done this before

• CITES permit system

  How export, import and re-export permits actually work, including for scientific samples

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