Cycads in the illegal wildlife trade
No news report of a cycads seizure has reached WildTrace yet. The trade is still recorded: countries report seized and confiscated shipments to CITES.
CITES appendix I/II. Taxa covered: Cycadaceae, Encephalartos spp., Cycas spp..
Where seized cycads came from, and where it was seized
19 shipments of cycads 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
- Australia 9
- South Africa 6
- Dominican Republic 1
- China 1
- New Zealand 1
- United States 1
Seized in
- France 9
- South Africa 6
- United States 2
- Namibia 1
- Hong Kong 1