During the session, the Congolese Wildlife Authority (ICCN) presented its Strategic Action Plan for progressively removing the sites fromthe Danger List.
But if it does that, it will probably allow the country to be removed fromthe warning list of countries with excessive deficits giving Rome more freedom of action on the budget.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service must now decide whether to listthe polar bear as endangered, or to put it in a lesser category of risk such as threatened, or to keep it off thelist entirely - an option which would immediately lead to further legal actionfromthe conservation coalition.