The Secretariats will liaise on how best to complement each other in promoting (i) their Conventions' shared goals of supporting biodiversity conservation and sustainable use through their instruments' respective competences on international wildlife conservation; (ii) transboundary concerted and cooperative actions on migratory species and their habitats; and (iii) membership.
CEP was established in 1981 as part of the Regional Seas Programme in recognition of the importance and value of the Wider Caribbean Region’s fragile and vulnerable coastal and marine ecosystems including endemic plants and animals.