Subject:  New CITES WWW Information Service


Members of this listserver may be interested in the following announcement
of a new CITES Web site, made by one of my colleagues earlier today.

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Dear Colleagues

WCMC is pleased to launch a new CITES Information Service on the WWW.
This is just the beginning!  What you will see at
          http://www.wcmc.org.uk/CITESn.
is a prototype designed to show what can be achieved.

For instance, if you interested in the species themselves, go directly
to the interactive CITES-listed species database at
          http://www.wcmc.org.uk/CITES/english/fauna.htm
(or step through the site instead).  Where else on the Internet can you
discover what CITES-listed species occur in a country or find out when
particular species were listed?

Alternatively you can access the Resolutions and Decisions from past
Conferences of the Parties and many other documents. Where possible we
provide this information in each of the three official languages used
by CITES (English, French and Spanish). The trilingual facility will be
expanded as the site is developed further.

We are very grateful to the CITES Secretariat for their advice in
developing this prototype, and to the Joint Nature Conservation Committee
(UK) and the European Commission (DGXI) for their additional support.

We know there is much more to add to the site and we shall be working
continually to improve it. In order to make it as useful as possible we
need to know what YOU would like to see on the site and how you would
like to see it, so please give us feedback and the chance to cater for
your needs. Just click on the word "comments" at the footer of each page
and fill out the form. Alternatively contact me directly by email.

I will be at CITES COP10 in Harare, June 9-20th, and would be happy to
discuss the development of the prototype with anyone who is interested.

We hope this site will be of use to you.

Regards
Lorraine Collins

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Lorraine Collins                     |
World Conservation Monitoring Centre | lorraine.collins@wcmc.org.uk
219 Huntingdon Road                  | Phone: +44 1223 277314
Cambridge CB3 0DL                    | Fax:   +44 1223 277136
United Kingdom                       |

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Jeremy Harrison                                 Tel: +44 (0)1223 277314
World Conservation Monitoring Centre            Fax: +44 (0)1223 277136
219 Huntingdon Road                         WWW: http://www.wcmc.org.uk/CITES/english/fauna.htm
Cambridge CB3 0DL, United Kingdom                  FTP: ftp.wcmc.org.uk