(f) develop national strategies, plans and programmes for the conservation of the biological diversity of Zimbabwe; (g) promote the integration of conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity into relevant sectoral policies, plans and programmes; (h) require in writing any developer, including the Government, to integrate the conservation and sustainable utilisation of the biological diversity in any project the implementation of which has or is likely to have detrimental effects to the biological diversity; (i) protect the indigenous property rights of local communities in respect of biological diversity; (j) support the integration of traditional knowledge on conservation of biological diversity with scientific knowledge; (k) prohibit or restrict access by any person to or the exportation of any component of the biological diversity of Zimbabwe. (2) The Minister may, on the advice of the Board and in consultation with the responsible Minister, take such action or measures may be necessary for the conservation of the biological diversity of a specific locality and may, in so doing⎯ (a) promote such land use methods as are compatible with the conservation of the biological diversity of that locality; (b) select and manage environmental protection areas for the conservation of the various terrestrial and aquatic ecological systems; (c) establish and manage buffer zones near environmental protection areas; (d) prohibit or control the importation of and introduction into the wild of exotic animal and plant species; (e) identify, promote and integrate traditional knowledge into the conservation and sustainable utilisation of the biological diversity of that locality; and (f) determine special measures for the protection of species, ecosystems and habitats faced with extinction. (3) The Minister, in consultation with the relevant appropriate authority, may prescribe measures for the conservation of biological diversity not specific to any locality, including measures for the establishment and management of germplasm banks, botanical gardens, zoos, animal sanctuaries and such other similar facility. (4) Where the Minister considers it desirable to do so, he may, on the advice of the Board, recommend to the responsible Minister, the release of any animal or animal species conserved in a particular locality or in terms of subsection (3) into its natural habitat or ecological system. 117Regulation of biological and genetic resources (1) The Minister, on the recommendations of the Agency, may, by regulations, control or restrict access by any person to the biological and genetic resources of Zimbabwe. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the regulations specified in subsection (1) may⎯ (a) prohibit the exportation and importation of germplasm, except in accordance with a licence issued by the Minister and subject to such conditions as the Minister may impose; 53