CITES Identification Guide Tropical Woods (Environment Canada)

This guide is designed to assist in the identification of shipments of wood at border points. While other tools have been developed for identifying wood species, they often require extensive scientific knowledge or complex technologies that are often unavailable to the personnel involved. In contrast, this guide is a simple, precise field tool that can be used by anyone.

The use of the guide requires no prior knowledge of wood identification. By following the steps described in the guide and using powers of observation, the users will learn simple identification techniques that will help them to identify CITES-protected tropical woods.

The guide is available in English (EN), French (FR), Spanish (ES), and Turkish (TR).

Citation: Environment Canada. 2002. CITES Identification Guide Tropical Woods: Guide to the Identification of Tropical Woods Controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data. ISBN 0-660-61750-1