Frankincense, myrrh & plant resins in the illegal wildlife trade
No news report of a frankincense, myrrh & plant resins seizure has reached WildTrace yet. The trade is still recorded: countries report seized and confiscated shipments to CITES.
CITES appendix II. Taxa covered: Boswellia spp., Commiphora spp., Aloe spp..
Where seized frankincense, myrrh & plant resins came from, and where it was seized
24 shipments of frankincense, myrrh & plant resins 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
- Dominican Republic 3
- Japan 3
- Thailand 2
- South Africa 2
- Indonesia 2
- Australia 1
- Brazil 1
- Lesotho 1
Seized in
- United States 20
- Greece 2
- Hong Kong 1
- South Africa 1
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