The purposes of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Endangered Species Certification Scheme (ESCS) are:

-          to raise the level of awareness, education and compliance with the legal requirements associated with the international wildlife trade;

-          to recognise professionals and traders involved in the ethical research, recommendation, prescription, supply, export or import of traditional Chinese medicines; and

-          to provide a credible mechanism to acknowledge and support professionals and traders to publicly promote that they do not use or support the use of Chinese medicines containing illegally traded wildlife ingredients.