JOLANTA RIMŠAITĖ
Nature Research CentreInstitute of Ecology
Akademijos 2LT-08412 Vilnius, LithuaniaEl. p. [email protected] www.gamtostyrimai.lt
CITES species expertise carried out in Nature Research Centre
Nature Research Centre (NRC)- Cites Scientific Authorities in Lithuania.
Scientists of Institute of Ecology and Institute of Botany NRC deals with Convention related issues – identification of Cites species, consulting to the effect of trade on the status of the CITES species.
The mostly detained goods with suspected CITES specimens in
customs: *“snake vine”
*Stone corals
*Mollusca
“Snake vine” with checkered keelback Xenochrophis piscator (2007 year -37 units) ir scorpions (25
units) Heterometrus sp. , also Ahaetulla nasuta (Colubridae), Rhabdophis tigrinus, Elaphe
rufodorsata=Oocatochus rufodorsatus, Hippocampus spp, Gekko gecko
Stone corals (SCLERACTINIA spp. )
2008 year:
* 20 expertise
2012 – 2011 year:
* 11 expertise to custom (skin, leather goods, corals )
2013 year:
* 3 expertise (“snake vine” (with Bungarus sp., scorpions), corals.
2014 year:
* 5 expertise to custom
* (15 units of “snake vine” mostly with Xenochrophis piscator, 32 units of shells, )
Shells of Mollusca Tridacna
Strombus gigas
Stone corals and its parts
Cosmetics, pharmaceuticals
Cites information desks and expositions in Kaunas T. Ivanauskas Museum of
zoology