<div dir="ltr">Please send us what you need translated to Arabic. I will get some of our volunteers to work on it, it will be a good exercise for them<div>Sincerely</div><div><br></div><div>Mazin Qumsiyeh</div><div>Professor and Director</div><div>Palestine Museum f Natural History</div><div>Bethlehem University</div><div>Bethlehem, Palestine</div><div><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__palestinenature.org&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=-paGsAZaDoOtjDKzXndwnoqxirB4rltrCFF1qQZBdOg&s=iwdN07Fb7jhuFqL5ZdGHfvANWXc9ims7RWcJJLma0Is&e=">http://palestinenature.org</a></div><div><a href="mailto:mazin@qumsiyeh.org">mazin@qumsiyeh.org</a></div><div><a href="mailto:info@palestinenature.org">info@palestinenature.org</a></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Ellen Paul <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ellen.paul@verizon.net" target="_blank">ellen.paul@verizon.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We are still in need of translators for the three letters we are working<br>
on to deal with the validation problem.<br>
<br>
We don&#39;t even have anyone to translate into 2 of the 3 official CITES<br>
languages - Spanish and French.<br>
<br>
We already have volunteers for<br>
<br>
Korean<br>
Japanese<br>
Portuguese<br>
Spanish<br>
Swahili<br>
<br>
Would really like to also have:<br>
<br>
Literary Arabic<br>
Malagasy<br>
Ethiopia: Amharic<br>
Bahasa<br>
Standard Mandarin<br>
Hungarian<br>
Polish<br>
Norwegian<br>
Hebrew<br>
Dutch<br>
German<br>
Ukrainian<br>
Russian<br>
Italian<br>
Thai<br>
<br>
There will be three letters and they will each be reviewed by people<br>
with extensive CITES experience:<br>
<br>
1.  To every CITES management authority to encourage them to register<br>
scientific institutions in their country.<br>
2.  To every CITES country on the standing committee, encouraging them<br>
to suspend or revoke the validation requirement.<br>
3.  To every scientific institution in the country that would qualify<br>
for registration, urging them to apply for registration.<br>
<br>
Please volunteer and please share this e-mail with anyone you know who<br>
might be willing to translate.<br>
<br>
Ellen<br>
<br>
Ellen Paul<br>
Executive Director<br>
The Ornithological Council<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:ellen.paul@verizon.net">ellen.paul@verizon.net</a><br>
Phone (301) 986 8568<br>
&quot;Providing Scientific Information about Birds&quot;<br>
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