Medicinal & aromatic plants in the illegal wildlife trade
No news report of a medicinal & aromatic 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: Saussurea costus, Nardostachys jatamansi, Panax quinquefolius, Prunus africana, Taxus wallichiana, Aquilaria, Rauvolfia serpentina.
Where seized medicinal & aromatic plants came from, and where it was seized
1,299 shipments of medicinal & aromatic 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
- United States 844
- China 47
- Canada 18
- India 7
- Hong Kong 3
- Vietnam 2
- Singapore 1
- Nepal 1
Seized in
- China 578
- United States 483
- Hong Kong 109
- Taiwan 42
- XX 12
- Australia 11
- South Korea 8
- Japan 7