Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) in 2007 during the sidelines of the CITES CoP14 meeting held in Hague4. The system plans to quantify information collected from grass root level and from local enforcement agencies in a country and then compiles to a central repository at the national level5. This information is then researched analyzed and then transferred to various international agencies electronically as four deliverables and the most important being the standard ecomessage administered by Interpol.

This discussion paper will attempt to analyze the situation with regard to global governance in managing trade of wildlife, the role of UNEP and CITES convention, national governments and civil society. It will then explain the role of technology as a major instrument in finding solution to the problems of global environmental governance through a case study on the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System model in strengthening governance through an integrated approach by bridging together UN agencies, parties to UN conventions, research Institutions and civil society.