No. 736 Lausanne, 20 April 1993 CONCERNING: New Criteria to Amend the CITES Appendices 1.Please find attached a letter from the Chairman of the Standing Committee to the Management Authorities of the CITES Parties, as well as the document "New Criteria for Listing Species in the CITES Appendices" prepared by IUCN Ž The World Conservation Union. 2.The following list contains the names and addresses of the regional members of the Standing Committee, Animals Committee and Plants Committee, to whom any comments on the document prepared by IUCN should be sent before 30 June 1993: Africa Standing Committee: Mr Bocar Oumar Sall Direction des eaux, forˆts, chasses et de la conservation des sols Parc forestier de Hann B.P. 1831 DAKAR Senegal Telefax: (221) 320426 Animals Committee: Dr Jonathan Hutton P.O. Box HG 690 Highlands HARARE Zimbabwe Telefax: (2634) 708554 Plants Committee: Dr Christine H.S. Kabuye E.A. Herbarium National Museums of Kenya P.O. Box 45166 NAIROBI Kenya Telefax: (2542) 741424 Asia Standing Committee: Mr Pong Leng-ee Deputy Permanent Secretary Conservation Division Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Rajadamnern Ave BANGKOK Thailand Telefax: (662) 5798611; 5793576 Animals Committee: Dr Nobuo Ishii Japan Wildlife Research Centre Yushima Ohta Bldg 2-29-3 Yushima BUNKYO- KU, TOKYO 113 Japan Telefax: (813) 38138898 Plants Committee: Dr B.D. Sharma Botanical Survey of India P-8, Brabourne Road CALCUTTA - 700001 India Telefax: (9133) 259330 Europe Standing Committee: Dr Sven Johansson Statens Jordbruksverk (Swedish Board of Agriculture) S-551 82 JOENKOEPING Sweden Telefax: (4636) 155005 Animals Committee: Dr Rainer Blanke Bundesamt fr Ern„hrung und Forstwirtschaft Artenschutz, Referat 28 ŽWissenschaftliche Beh”rdeŽ Mallwitzstr. 1-3 D-5300 BONN 2 Germany Telefax: (49228) 9543470 Plants Committee: Mr Noel McGough Royal Botanic Gardens Kew RICHMOND, SURREY TW9 3AE United Kingdom Telefax: (4481) 3325278 North America Standing Committee: Mr David Brackett Director General Canadian Wildlife Service Department of the Environment Ottawa, Ontario K1A OH3 Canada Telefax: (1819) 9537177 Animals Committee: Prof. Humberto Salgado y Bonilla Subdirector de Aprovechamiento Instituto Nacional de Ecolog¡a Direcci¢n General de Aprovechamiento Ecol¢gico de los Recursos Naturales R¡o Elba No. 20 Ž 100 Piso Col y Deleg. Cuauhtemoc 06500 MEXICO, D.F. Mexico Telefax: (525) 2866625; 5539073 Plants Committee: Dr Bruce MacBryde US Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Scientific Authority 725 Arlington Square Bldg WASHINGTON, DC 20240 USA Telefax: (1703) 3582276 Oceania Standing Committee: Mr Murray Hosking Department of Conservation P.O. Box 10-420 59 Boulcott Street WELLINGTON New Zeland Telefax: (644) 4733656 Animals Committee: Mr R.W.G. Jenkins Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service G.P.O. Box 636 CANBERRA, ACT 2601 Australia Telefax: (6162) 500399; 500274 Plants Committee: Dr Jim A. Armstrong Department of Conservation and Land Management Hackettt Drive Crawley PERTH, WA 6009 Australia Telefax: (619) 3861578 South and Central America and the Caribbean Standing Committee: Dr Carol James Head of Wildlife Section Management Authority CITES Forestry Division Farm Road St. Joseph PORT-OF-SPAIN Trinidad and Tobago Telefax: (1809) 6454288 Animals Committee: Biol. Sixto Inchaustegui Miranda El Vergel 33 El Vergel SANTO DOMINGO Dominican Republic Telefax: (1809) 5356940 Plants Committee: Dr Maria Luisa Reyna de Aguilar Secc. Areas Naturales y Biodiv. SEMA-Secretaria Ejecutiva del Medio Ambiente Edificio CREDO-MATIC Alameda Roosevelt SAN SALVADOR El Salvador Telefax: (503) 770490