This publication relates to all species listed in CITES Appendices I, II (as of 19 July 2000) and III (as of 12 June 2001). Annotated CITES Appendices and Reservations can also serve as a checklist for CITES-listed species, and in addition explains what is the listing history of the species. All reservations by Parties and their dates are listed. This is a trilligual publication and the information appears in English, French and Spanish.

Use of and trade in wildlife is a fact of life for human society around the globe. Article IV of the CITES Convention requires that exporting countries restrict trade in Appendix II species to levels that are not detrimental either to species? survival, or to their role within the ecosystems in which they occur (known as the ?non-detriment finding?). Based on two workshops convened by IUCN to develop some pragmatic assistance for Scientific Authorities, this publication presents the background to the development of the non-detriment finding checklist and explains how the checklist itself is designed to work, in the hope that Scientific Authority staff will take and develop the parts of the approach that they find useful.