2. States Parties shall assess and control activities which may significantly affect the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife so as to avoid or minimise negative impacts. 3. Measures which shall be taken by States Parties to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife shall include a) the protection of wildlife and wildlife habitats to ensure the maintenance of viable wildlife populations; b) prevention of over-exploitation and extinction of species; c) restrictions on the taking of wildlife, including but not limited to restrictions on the number, sex, size or age of specimens taken and the locality and season during which they may be taken; and d) restrictions on trade in wildlife and its products, both nationally and internationally, as required by relevant international agreements. 4. States Parties shall establish or introduce mechanisms for community-based wildlife management and shall, as appropriate, integrate principles, and techniques derived from indigenous knowledge systems into national wildlife management and law enforcement policies and procedures. 5. States Parties shall, as appropriate, establish programmes and enter into agreements: a) to promote the co-operative management of shared wildlife resources and wildlife habitats across international borders; and b) to promote co-operative management, the conservation of species and populations and the marketing of their products. 6. States Parties shall, as appropriate, promote economic and social incentives to encourage the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife. 7. States Parties shall, as appropriate, develop programmes and mechanisms to: a) educate the general public and raise public awareness concerning issues of the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife; b) build national and regional capacity for wildlife management and law enforcement; c) promote research which contributes to and supports the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife. 8. States Parties shall in recognition of the important role played by rural communities in the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife, promote community-based conservation and management of wildlife resources. 9. States Parties shall, in recognition of the location of key wildlife resources near international boundaries, promote the development of trans frontier conservation and management programmes.