Notification to the Parties

CONCERNING:

Checklists of animal species listed in the CITES Appendices
and in European Community (EC) Regulation No. 338/97

1. The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), which is the Scientific Authority of the United Kingdom for fauna, has published the following Checklists of animal species listed in the CITES Appendices and in European Community (EC) Regulation No. 338/97. These Checklists were prepared by the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

– UNEP-WCMC (2003). Checklist of herpetofauna listed in the CITES Appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97. 9th edition. JNCC report No. 340.

– UNEP-WCMC (2003). Checklist of fish and invertebrates listed in the CITES Appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97. 6th edition. JNCC report No. 341.

– UNEP-WCMC (2003). Checklist of mammals listed in the CITES Appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97. 6th edition. JNCC report No. 342.

– UNEP-WCMC (2003). Checklist of birds listed in the CITES Appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97. 7th edition. JNCC report No. 343.

2. The purpose of these publications is to provide a comprehensive list of the animal species included in the CITES Appendices, together with their category in the 2002 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals, the appropriate Annex in EC Regulation 338/97, and the geographical range, by country, of each taxon.

3. These revised editions incorporate additions and amendments to the CITES Appendices valid from 13 February 2003, and therefore include those made at the 12th meeting of the Conference of Parties, Santiago, in November 2002. They also include relevant references to the scientific literature.

4. In a publication of this nature, it is inevitable that users will discover entries that need correcting or updating. UNEP-WCMC and JNCC would be grateful to receive details of any such corrections so that the necessary changes can be made in the database from which these checklists are produced. Any other comments on the usefulness of these documents will also be gratefully received.

5. The checklists, available in English only, can be downloaded from the British CITES website at: http://www.ukcites.gov.uk/intro/cites_species.htm.