Trade in protected species: publications

This section provides access to the most frequently asked for publications regarding the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Other Environment Canada and Climate Change (ECCC) publications related to CITES and the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act (WAPPRIITA) are accessible from the Publications Catalogue.

WAPPRIITA annual reports

• WAPPRIITA annual report 2022
• WAPPRIITA annual report 2021
• WAPPRIITA annual report 2020
• WAPPRIITA annual report 2019
• WAPPRIITA annual report 2018
• WAPPRIITA annual report 2017
• WAPPRIITA annual report 2016
• WAPPRIITA annual report 2015

Information brochures 

ECCC created a series of information brochures to inform Canadians travelling abroad or tourists to Canada; individuals and businesses; practitioners, pharmacists, importers/exporters and users of medicinal formulas or packaged medicines that list or contain wildlife ingredients, about their legal obligations under Canada’s wildlife trade law, WAPPRIITA and how it may affect them: 

• Endangered Species and Trade
• Endangered Species and the International Traveller
• Animal and Plant Ingredients in Traditional Medicine
• American Ginseng
• African grey parrots
• Rosewood