CITES REFORMS
November 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLA PROPOSAL to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids been approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).Its member governments - meeting in Santiago, Chile - exempted six species from trade controls. These included reared specimens of phalaenopsis (or moth orchid), oncidium (or dancing lady orchid), cattleya, cymbidium, denodrobium and vanda. In the past, traders wanting to sell these plants have had to acquire special permits, but now they do not have to so long ...
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