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In article <37rtel$6fe@www.interramp.com>,  <pp000165@interramp.com> wrote:
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>Not quite quite right Ellen.  The IUCN is the parent organization
>of the Convention (CITES) and they DO definitely  maintain offices
>in Cambridge as well as in Switzerland. I have always found it
>easier to communicate and deal with the British branch. You make it
>sound as if Switzerland is the only place you can get Red Data
>book, etc. Wrong.  The Cambridge Hq has a special publications
>unit to deal with this.  I am in contact with them regularly.
>
>All fall under the umbrella of sponsoring organizations including         the 
>EEC, WWF and the United Nations. You can order from Switzerland
>also but I found in the past it took much longer. 
>Regards Kevin Nunan (pp000165@interramp.com)


Kevin - the CITES Secretariat is in Lausanne, Switzerland.  CITES was 
dreamed up by the IUCN in 1963, but became a separate, stand-alone 
organization by the terms of the treaty.  

The Red Data Book has nothing to do with CITES.   It is a list of 
endangered, threatened, and rare species, without regard to the cause of 
the threat.  CITES has only to do with species affected by international 
trade and includes (Appendix II) species that are not currently 
endangered, threatened, or rare, but are under pressure from trade that, 
if left unchecked, may cause the species to become threatened or endangered.

The Red Data Book is available anywhere (US bookstores, etc.)  I don't 
doubt that there is a CITES office of some sort in England.  Under the 
terms of CITES, all signatory parties must have an Office of Management 
Authority and an Office of Scientific Authority.  In the US, both these 
authorities are sections of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

CITES does not fall under the sponsorship of WWF or any other NGO..CITES 
answers only to the signatory countries.  NGO's are permitted to attend 
the Biannual Conference of the Parties (if granted permission by the 
Management Authority of their country) but are not permitted to vote.
The European Economic Community is not currently a member of CITES, 
although CITES expressly provides for the membership of organizations 
comprised of a coalition of sovereign states.  It would be nice if the EC 
was to become a member, because then they would drag in a few non-member 
states, such as Greece.


The Endangered Species list is available at 50 C.F.R.17.11 (CFR = Code of 
Federal REgulations) and the CITES appendices are also printed in volume 
50 of the CFR, but I can't remember the section number of the top of my head.

I don't pretend to know everything, but I do know this stuff cold.  
Ellen