CITES REFORMS

BY KEITH NUTHALLA MOVE to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids has been made by the USA, which has formally proposed that six species are exempted from controls under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Currently, wild and reared specimens of cattleya, cymbidium, denodrobium, oncidium (or dancing lady orchid), vanda and phalaenopsis (or moth orchid), are listed under CITES' Appendix II list, requiring traders to acquire special permits to buy and sell these plants. (NAMES ALL ...


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