Orchids in the illegal wildlife trade
No news report of a orchids seizure has reached WildTrace yet. The trade is still recorded: countries report seized and confiscated shipments to CITES.
CITES appendix I/II. Taxa covered: Orchidaceae, Cymbidium spp., Dendrobium spp., Paphiopedilum spp., Dactylorhiza spp., Orchis spp..
Where seized orchids came from, and where it was seized
807 shipments of orchids 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
- China 76
- Thailand 58
- Japan 16
- Taiwan 16
- South Korea 12
- Indonesia 9
- Vietnam 8
- Ecuador 7
Seized in
- United States 773
- France 26
- South Africa 3
- Japan 1
- United Arab Emirates 1
- The Netherlands 1
- Finland 1
- Singapore 1