05. CITES

Who maintains the list of CITES and implementing The Endangered Species Act?

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Department of the Interior) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (aka NOAA Fisheries, Dept of Commerce)

What does The Lacey Act protect?

Enacted in 1900, it became the first federal law protecting wildlife

regulates the import, export, sell, acquisition or purchase of fish, wildlife or plants of any species protected by international or domestic law and prevents the spread of invasive, or non-native, species

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is responsible for enforcement

CITES I

I - Threatened by extinction

Trade is permitted only under exceptional circumstances (ie: Scientific research and not for commercial purposes)

CITES II

II - Not necessarily threatened by extinction

Trade must be controlled in order to avoid utilization incompatible with survival ("look alike species")

CITES III

III - Species that are protected in at least one country that has requested help from other CITES parties in controlling trade

What is needed to add a species to the list of CITES I and II?

Species can be added to I or II by a convened conference of the parties. Species can be added or removed to III by any party unilaterally, but a convened meeting is preferred

Lemur catta

CITES Appendix I

(suborder prosimians)- Ring Tailed Lemur

Varecia variegate

CITES Appendix I

(suborder prosimians)- Ruffed Lemur

Propithicus spp.

CITES Appendix I

(suborder prosimians)- Sifaka

Daubentonia madagascariensis

CITES Appendix I

(suborder prosimians)- Aye Aye

Nycticebus spp.

CITES Appendix I

(suborder prosimians)- Slow Loris

Cheirogaleidae spp

CITES Appendix I

(suborder prosimians)- Dwarf/Pygmy/Mouse lemur

Alouatta coibensis

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)- Howler Monkey

Brachyteles hypoxanthus

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)- Spider Monkey

Oreonax flavicauda

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)- Yellow Tailed Woolly Monkey

Cacajao spp.

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)- Uakari

Chiropotes albinasus

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)- Red Nose Bearded Saki

Leontopithecus spp.

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)- Golden Lion Tamarin

Sanguinus oedipus

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)-Cotton-top Tamarin

Saguinus leucopus

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)-White Footed Tamarin

Callithrix flaviceps

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)- Buffy Headed Marmoset

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)-

Callimico goeldii

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)- Goeldi's Marmoset

Saimiri oerstedii

CITES Appendix I

(parvorder platyrrhiini)- Black Crowned Squirrel Monkey

Macaca silenus

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Lion Tailed Macaque

Macaca sylvanus

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Barbary Macaque

Rhinopithecus spp.

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Golden Snub-nose Monkey

Cercopithecus roloway

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Roloway Monkey

Cercocebus galeritus

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Tana River Mangaby

Mandrillus leucophaeus

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Drill

Trachypithecus pileatus

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Capped Langur

Simias concolor

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Pig-Tail Snub-Nose Langur

Semnopithecus hector

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Gray Langur

Pan troglodytes

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)-Chimpanzee

Gorilla beringei

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Eastern Gorilla

Pongo pygmaeus

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Orangutan

Nasalis larvatus

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)-Proboscis Monkey

Hylobatidae Spp

NHP in CITES Appendix I

(parvorder catarrhini)- Gibbon

WHAT DOES THE ACRONYM CITES MEAN?

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

Who enforces CITES?

Dept of Interior is the agency that enforces it in U.S