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In article <37pdar$roq@www.interramp.com>,  <pp000165@interramp.com> wrote:
>
>You can obtain a descriptive list of publications  from
>
>International Union for the Conservation of Nature
>Publications Unit
>181a Huntingdon Rd
>Cambridge, CB3 ODJ
>England
>
>
>
>CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered
>Species) is managed by the IUCN.  They may be able to provide
>you with some free ref materials but most of the CITES
>lists include quite comprehensive analysis of why a species
>was added to either of the Appendices (I & II)
>and this runs into many expensive pages of text to reproduce.
>Insofar as I am aware none of this material is available on the
>net in a cohesive form.
>
>Sorry, but not quite right.  CITES was first dreamed up in 1963 by the 
IUCN, but it became a reality in 1973, complete with its own management.  
The CITES office is at Case Postale 78
                       1000 Lausanne 9
                        Switzerland

You can get the IUCN Red Data book in many bookstores (books - its 
several volumes and the new bird volume is not yet complete.  However, 
the Red Data Book is not the same thing as the CITES appendices.  As I 
explained when to this person when she posted in rec.pets.birds, CITES 
appendices are as follows:
Appendix I is species that are endangered and negatively affected by 
trade.  Appendix II is species that are not endangered but that are 
traded at such levels that the trade must be regulated in order to 
prevent them from becoming endangered.  Appendix III is species that are 
protected by laws in the range country.

HOpe this helps all.

Ellen Paul
toodles@wam.umd.edu