ARTICLE II The high contracting parties agree to establish laws, regulations and provisions to satisfy the need set forth in the preceding Article, including: A) The establishment of close seasons, which will prohibit in certain periods of the year the taking of migratory birds, their nests or eggs, as well as their transportation or sale, alive or dead, their products or parts, except when proceeding, with appropriate authorization, from private game farms or when used for scientific purposes, for propagation or for museums. B) The establishment of refuge zones in which the taking of such birds will be prohibited. The limitation of their hunting to four months in each year, as a maximum, under permits issued by the respective authorities in each case. C) D) The establishment of a close season for wild ducks from the tenth of March to the first of September. E) The prohibition of the killing of migratory insectivorous birds, except when they become injurious to agriculture and constitute plagues, as well as when they come from reserves or game farms: provided however that such birds may be captured alive and used in conformity with the laws of each contracting country. The high contracting parties respectively agree, in addition, not to permit the transportation over the American-Mexican border of migratory birds, dead or alive, their parts or products, without a permit of authorization provided for that purpose by the government of each country, with the understanding that in the case that the said birds, their parts or products are transported from one country to the other without the stipulated authorization, they will be considered as contraband and treated accordingly. ARTICLE IV The high contracting parties declare that for the purposes of the present Convention the following birds shall be considered migratory: MIGRATORY NON-GAME BIRDS Familia Cuculidae Familia Trochilidae Familia Picidae Familia Tyrannidae Familia Alaudidae Familia Hirundinidae Familia Paridae Familia Certhiidae Familia Troglodytidae Familia Turdidae Familia Mimidae Familia Motacillidae Familia Laniidae Familia Vireonidae Familia Compsothlypidae Familia Icteridae Familia Thraupidae Familia Fringillidae Others which the Presidents of the United States of America and the United Mexican States may determine by common agreement. ARTICLE V The high contracting parties agree to apply the stipulations set forth in Article III with respect to the game mammals which live in their respective countries. ARTICLE VI This Convention shall be ratified by the high contracting parties in accordance with their constitutional methods and shall remain in force for fifteen years and shall be understood to be extended from year to year if the high contracting parties have not indicated twelve months in advance their intention to terminate it. The respective plenipotentiaries sign the present Convention in duplicate in English and Spanish, affixing thereto their respective seals, in the City of Mexico, the seventh day of February of 1936. Agreement Supplementing the Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds and Game Mammals, Mexico City and Tlatelolco, 1972 I have the honor to refer to the Convention between the United States of America and the United Mexican States for the Protection of Migratory Birds and Game Mammals, signed at Mexico City on February 7, 1936, and to conversations between representatives of our two Governments relating to the addition to the list of birds considered migratory for the purposes of the Convention. Pursuant to authority delegated by the President of the United States, I have the honor to propose that the following additions be made to the list of birds set forth in Article IV of the Convention: Upon the receipt of a note from Your Excellency indicating that the proposal contained in this note is acceptable to the Government of the United Mexican States, the Government of the United States of America will consider that this note and your reply thereto shall constitute an agreement between the two Governments on this subject, which agreement shall enter into force on the date of your note in reply. I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency's note No. 283 of today's date, the Spanish translation of which is as follows: [For the English language text, see page 3280.] In reply, I am happy to inform Your Excellency that my Government accepts the terms of your note No. 283, transcribed above, and consequently agrees to consider that your note and this note in reply shall constitute an agreement between the Government of the United Mexican States and the Government of the United States of America amending Article 4 of the Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds and Game Mammals, signed at Mexico City on February 7, 1936, which agreement shall enter into force on this date. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration. R. GONZÁLEZ S. Agreement Between the United States of America and the United Mexican States on Cooperation for the Protection and Improvement of the Environment in the Border Area, La Paz, 1983 Done at La Paz 14 August 1983; Annex I and II done at San Diego 18 July 1985; Entered into force 16 February 1984; Primary source citation: TIAS 10827; AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES ON COOPERATION FOR THE PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE BORDER AREA The United States of America and the United Mexican States, RECOGNIZING the importance of a healthful environment to the long-term economic and social well-being of present and future generations of each country as well as of the global community; RECALLING that the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, proclaimed in Stockholm in 1972, called upon nations to collaborate to resolve environmental problems of common concern; NOTING previous agreements and programs providing for environmental cooperation between the two countries; |