From dgalbraith@rbg.ca Mon Jun 3 04:03:00 2002 Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g53B2vw3080672 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 04:02:57 -0700 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Jun 03 04:02:56 2002 -0700 Received: from exchserver.rbg.ca (mail.rbg.ca [204.187.63.118]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g53B2uKQ017347 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 04:02:56 -0700 Received: by EXCHSERVER with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 07:02:42 -0400 Message-ID: From: David Galbraith To: "'ginseng@mail.primorye.ru'" Cc: "'CONSBIO'" Subject: RE: FOREST Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 07:02:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Hi Yurii, I cannot answer all of your questions, but some points about your first two questions: Legal mechanisms: CITES - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species - is the primary international law regarding movement of endangered plants or animals, or their parts or derivitives, across international borders. This treaty now has 158 Parties, or member countries. For the most part, protection within a country is within the sovereign rights of the country. You can reach the CITES secretariat at: http://www.cites.org It is important to note that CITES uses a specific list of species which are either banned from trade ("Appendix I") or are restricted and require permits ("Appendix II"). The CITES list is the result of international negotiations, and it is a small subset of other endangered species lists. There is no "universal" list - each country maintains its own, and sometimes there are many within a country. In Canada, for example, there are different "species-at-risk" lists within each of our Provinces, and our federal government maintains a different list, also. Each country may have its own export/import restrictions for endangered species, in addition to CITES. You can read the CITES lists on the secretariat's web site. Each country that participates in CITES has its own National Authority responsible for administering the treaty. CBD - the Convention on Biological Diversity - this treaty is now international law for over 180 nations. The CBD has conservation of biological diversity as its first objective, and it calls upon individual countries to have their own plans and processes for protecting biodiversity at all levels - genetic, species, and ecosystem. The CBD does not have its own legal mechanisms for protecting species at risk at this time. IUCN Red List: The IUCN Red List is in fact several books that are updated from time to time. The list is available on the Web site of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), which is based at Cambridge, England, and is associated with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The web address is: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/ The WCMC web site includes two primary resources related to lists of plants at risk of extinction. Each of these is available as a printed publication and also with the associated database. The web links below will take you to the data bases. To find the actual publications, visit the WCMC web site and look for the link to "resources" and then "publications." The World List of Threatened Trees: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/trees/index.html 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/species/plants/overview.htm Again, you should note that the IUCN lists of species at risk of extinction is a different list than that maintained by CITES or by any individual country or other authority. Each of these lists is constructed using different procedures and rules, and for different purposes. Finding a species on one list is no indication of whether a different agency has or has not placed it on their list. With best wishes, Dr David A. Galbraith Manager of Biodiversity Projects Royal Botanical Gardens Hamilton, Canada -----Original Message----- From: Yurii Sudakov [mailto:ginseng@mail.primorye.ru] Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 10:29 PM To: washington.edu Cc: ecol-econ Subject: FOREST Hi, folks. I am seeking information about the problems of conservation of the rare and threatened plants species. Which international regulations and laws exist in the field of rare plants conservation now? The Red Data Book of the International Union of Nature Protection. Where is this book published in Internet? What are the modern methods to conserve small forest territories of very valuable species? I am interesting the distribution area of the following plant species: Panax ginseng Aristolochia manshuriensis Kalopanax septemlobum Taxus cuspidata & Korean pine broadlife deciduous forest (climax association). .