CONCERNING:
Traditional Asian Medicine Identification Guide
- In the second half of 2002, TRAFFIC International distributed a printout
copy of the Traditional Asian Medicine Identification Guide for Law Enforcers.
This guide was produced by HM Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland and TRAFFIC International with financial
support from the CITES Secretariat, Partnership for Action against Wildlife
Crime, the United Kingdom Council of Agriculture and WWF UK.
- A CD-ROM version of this guide was distributed to participants attending
the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Santiago, Chile, 3-15
November 2002).
- Additional copies of the CD-ROM are available from the Secretariat on
request.
- The Secretariat has entered into an agreement with HM Customs and Excise
of the United Kingdom and TRAFFIC International to prepare an updated version
of this guide, which should be published by the beginning of 2004.
- The Secretariat is seeking assistance from the Parties in preparing this
update, and would be grateful to receive wrappings or packing materials
of traditional Asian medicines claiming to contain CITES-listed species
that are not included in the current version of the identification guide.
- The Secretariat would appreciate the contents of this Notification being
communicated to the relevant inspection authorities.
