Cacti & succulents in the illegal wildlife trade
No news report of a cacti & succulents seizure has reached WildTrace yet. The trade is still recorded: countries report seized and confiscated shipments to CITES.
CITES appendix I/II. Taxa covered: Cactaceae, Conophytum spp., Lithops spp., Ariocarpus spp., Euphorbia spp., Dudleya spp..
Where seized cacti & succulents came from, and where it was seized
473 shipments of cacti & succulents seized or confiscated were reported to CITES since 2015 (CITES Trade Database, source code I). Counts are shipment records, not quantities, and some countries report far more completely than others.
Taken from
- Mexico 99
- United States 69
- Thailand 46
- China 38
- Japan 24
- Indonesia 21
- Italy 18
- Spain 14
Seized in
- United States 396
- South Korea 31
- Hong Kong 18
- France 5
- China 3
- XX 3
- Canada 3
- United Kingdom 3