CITES Appendix
Definition
CITES classifies listed species into three appendices. Appendix I prohibits commercial trade; Appendix II permits trade only with documented permits and quota compliance; Appendix III lists species where one country requests international trade monitoring. Forensic species identification determines which appendix applies to a seizure and whether trade was lawful.
Related terms
- Chain of custody
- The documented chronological record of who collected, handled, transferred, and examined a piece of evidence. For digital evidence, chain of custody includes...
- Cytochrome b (cyt b)
- A mitochondrial protein-coding gene widely used in forensic species identification before COI barcoding was standardised. Still used because its reference database for...
- DNA barcoding
- Species identification using a short, standardised region of the mitochondrial genome. For animals, the primary barcode marker is a 648-base-pair segment of...
- Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
- DNA located in mitochondria rather than the cell nucleus. Present in hundreds to thousands of copies per cell, making it recoverable from...
- STR profiling
- Short tandem repeat profiling: the same multi-locus PCR-based method used for human identity testing, adapted for target species with species-specific primer sets....
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- Wildlife Crime and Biological EvidenceCITES classifies listed species into three appendices. Appendix I prohibits commercial trade; Appendix II permits trade only with documented permits and quota...