CITES MEETING
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL trade controls have been imposed on some plants and trees with medicinal properties, to guarantee their future abundance for the pharmaceutical industry. A conference of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Trade (CITES), in Bangkok, staged in Thailand, strengthened rules on trading medicinal plants, including hoodia, used in diet pills; the desert-living cistanche, a natural tonic; and the Chinese yew tree, which boasts cancer-fighting properties.
INTERNATIONAL trade controls have been imposed on some plants and trees with medicinal properties, to guarantee their future abundance for the pharmaceutical industry. A conference of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Trade (CITES), in Bangkok, staged in Thailand, strengthened rules on trading medicinal plants, including hoodia, used in diet pills; the desert-living cistanche, a natural tonic; and the Chinese yew tree, which boasts cancer-fighting properties.
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