Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products 

Date when the measure came into force

01 January 2016 

Publication where the measure is specified

THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT 

Regulation where the measure is specified

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT (PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED AND THREATENED ECOSYSTEMS, HABITATS AND SPECIES) REGULATIONS, 2016 

Country/Region applying the measure

Kenya 

Coded list of objectives

E: Protection of the environment and F: Protection of wild fauna and flora 

Description of the measure

(1) Restricted activities involving listed species in regulation 8 include-
(a) any activity which is of a nature that may negatively impact on the survival of a listed species; and
(b) any of the following activity carried out without a permit issued under the Act or Regulations-
(i) catching, capturing or intentionally killing any living specimen of a listed species by any means, methods or device whatsoever, including searching, pursuing, driving, lying in wait; luring; alluring; discharging a missile or injuring with intent to hurt, catch, or kill any such specimen;
(ii) gathering, collecting or plucking any specimen of a listed species;
(iii) picking parts of, or cutting, chopping off, uprooting, damaging or destroying, any specimen of a listed species;
(iv) importing into Kenya, any specimen of a listed species;
(v) exporting from Kenya, including re-exporting from Kenya, any specimen of a listed species;
(vi) having in possession or exercising physical control over any specimen of a listed species; 

Reference of the measure

PART III-LISTED SPECIES 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

(A) MAMMALS
Aders' duiker
Black rhinoceros
Hirola
Eastern red colobus
Tana crested mangabey
Roan antelope
Sable antelope
White rhino
Coalfish whale
Blue whale
Grevy's zebra
African wild dog
Giant thicket rat
Barbour's vlei rat
Mount elgon vlei rat
Golden-rumped elephant shrew
Eastern bongo
African elephant
African lion
Cheetah
Striped hyaena
Sitatunga
Leopard
Lelwel hartebeest
Rothschild's giraffe
Giant forest hog
Percival's trident bat
Common hippopotamus
East african little collared fruit bat
Hump whale
Dugong
Sperm whale
Jackson's mongoose
Black and rufous elephant shrew
Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat
Hildegarde's tomb bat
Soemmerring's gazelle
African golden cat
Macinnes's mouse-tailed bat
Aberdare shrew
Mt. Kenya shrew
Audacious mole rat
Dwarf multimammate mouse
East african little collared fruit bat
Eastern tree hyrax
Elgon shrew
Fischer's shrew
Hamilton's tomb bat
Highland shrew
Hildegarde's tomb bat
Kenyan big-eared free-tailed bat
Large-eared free-tailed bat
Lesser hamster-rat
Red bush squirrel
Rombo shrew
Smoky white-toothed shrew
Sperm whale
Spotted-necked otter
Springhare
Vermiculate shrew
Spotted hyaena
Lesser kudu
Greater kudu

(B) BIRDS
Taita Apalis
Taita Thrush
Madagascar Pond-heron
Saker Falcon
Egyptian Vulture
Sokoke Scops-owl
Aberdare Cisticola
Basra Reed-warbler
Turner's Eremomela
Spotted Ground-thrush
Amani Sunbird
Clarke's Weaver
Sharpe's Longclaw
Sokoke Pipit
Lesser Kestrel
White-headed Vulture
Lappet-faced Vulture
Greater Spotted Eagle
Eastern Imperial Eagle
Madagascar Pratincole
Blue Swallow
White-winged Apalis
Karamoja Apalis
Papyrus Yellow Warbler
Hinde's Pied-babbler
Abbott's Starling
Chapin's Flycatcher
Ring-necked Francolin
Maccoa Duck
Lesser Flamingo
Red-footed Falcon
Sooty Falcon
Taita Falcon
White-backed Vulture
Rueppell's Vulture
Southern Banded Snake-eagle
Pallid Harrier
Denham's Bustard
Corncrake
Black Crowned-crane
Chestnut-banded Plover
Great Snipe
Black-tailed Godwit
Eurasian Curlew
White-eyed Gull
African Skimmer
White-winged Collared-dove
Grey Parrot
Fischer's Turaco
European Roller
Grey-crested Helmet-shrike
Papyrus Gonolek
East Coast Akalat
Semi-collared Flycatcher
Plain-backed Sunbird
Jackson's Widowbird
Malindi Pipit
Ostrich
Secretary Bird
Ring-necked Francolin
Great Crested Grebe
Saddle-billed Stork
Olive Ibis
Great White Egret
African Darter
African Fish Eagle
White-headed Vulture
Ayres's Hawk-Eagle
Martial Eagle
Crowned Eagle
Denham's Bustard
Striped Flufftail
Baillon's Crake
African Finfoot
Grey Crowned Crane
Black-rumped Buttonquail
Cape Eagle-Owl
Red-chested Owlet
Nyanza Swift
Shining-blue Kingfisher
Forest Wood-hoopoe
Violet Wood-hoopoe
Taita Fiscal
Piapiac
Thekla Lark
Southern Hyliota
Pale-breasted Illadopsis
Red-billed Oxpecker
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Tsavo Sunbird
Kenya Rufous Sparrow
Taveta Golden Weaver
Papyrus Canary
Yellow flycatcher

(C) Reptiles

Hawksbill turtle
Torrent Frog
Green turtle
Olive ridley
Rock python
Shimba Hills banana frog
Shimba Hills reed frog
Forest frog
Treefrog
Mount Kenya Frog
Crevice tortoise
Turkana mud turtle
Montane toad
Montane Tree Frog
Mt. Kenya bush viper
Kemp's ridley
Black turtle
Loggerhead
Leatherback
Yellow-bellied hinged terrapin
tropical geckos
Baobab gecko
Writhing skink
Keel-bellied lizard
Girdled-lizard
Worm snakes
Gunther's centipede-eater
East African egg eating snakes
Large brown spitting cobra
Black necked spotters
Savannah monitor lizard
Speckled bush snake
Puff adder
Green mamba
Nairobi toad
Silvery tree frog
Taita toad
Yellow-spotted tree frog
Turkana Toad
Delicate Spiny Reed Frog
Painted Reed Frog
Long Reed Frog
Spotted Reed Frog
Water Lily Reed Frog
Kenya sand boar
Side-striped chameleon
Flap-neck Chameleon
Elliot's Chameleon
High Casqued.Chameleon
Jackson's Chameleon (Three-horned
Chameleon)
Mount Kenya Chameleon
Gaboon Viper
Black and Red Skink

(D). Fish
Singidia tilapia
Lake chala tilapia
Jipe tilapia
Victoria tilapia
Rainbow sheller
Lake victoria deepwater catfish
Montane dancing-jewel
Magadi tilapia
Giant wrasse
Victoria stonebasher
Kyoga flameback
Grey nurse shark
Bigeye tuna
Whale shark
Porcupine ray
Oceanic whitetip shark
Great white shark
Bowmouth guitarfish
Black-blotched stingray
Giant guitarfish
Shorttail nurse shark
Brindle bass
Blue notho
Boji plains nothobranch
Elongate nothobranch
Ewaso nyiro labeo

(E) TREES

Voi cycad
East african sandalwood
Red stinkwood
Meru oak
Camphor
Parasol tree
Rat aloe
Tana river poplar 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.