Pitcher & carnivorous plants in the illegal wildlife trade
No news report of a pitcher & carnivorous plants seizure has reached WildTrace yet. The trade is still recorded: countries report seized and confiscated shipments to CITES.
CITES appendix I/II. Taxa covered: Nepenthes spp., Sarracenia spp., Dionaea muscipula.
Where seized pitcher & carnivorous plants came from, and where it was seized
36 shipments of pitcher & carnivorous plants 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
- Sri Lanka 10
- Thailand 4
- Malaysia 3
- Czechia 3
- South Africa 2
- Germany 2
- Taiwan 2
- United Kingdom 1
Seized in
- United States 31
- South Africa 3
- Thailand 1
- Hong Kong 1