Prevalence and perspectives of illegal trade in cacti and succulent plants in the collector community

Abstract

Article impact statement: Collectors are aware of CITES rules yet engage in illegal trade, yet collectors could represent an untapped resource for conservation.

Climate Change Reduces the Effectiveness of Myanmar’s Protected Area Network

“…The advantages of MaxEnt include: 6) Since the dependency of the MaxEnt probability distribution on the distribution of occurrence locations is explicit, it is possible to address sampling bias issues. (7) The output is continuous, allowing for fine-grained distinctions in simulated suitability across different regions. If binary predictions are needed, this provides significant flexibility in threshold selection.…”

“…The habitats of global biodiversity hotspot areas are shrinking [5,6]. Additionally, the extinction risks among taxonomic groups vary across different geographical regions, with biodiversity conservation in tropical regions requiring particular attention [7,8]. Myanmar, located in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot, serves as a critical link between the Sunda, Wallacea, and Philippine biodiversity hotspots [9,10].…”

Sobrexploração de Philodendron spiritus-sancti G.S.Bunting e a necessidade de implantação de uma política para a conservação de imbés

“…Como existe um predomínio da agricultura familiar no Espírito Santo, muitas destas áreas apresentam acesso restrito ao produtor. O germoplasma oriundo destas matrizes é comercializado entre colecionadores e, acompanhando o cenário global de uso de plantas (Timoshyna et al, 2020), foi intensificado durante a pandemia de Covid-19 (Kacker, 2022;Margulies;Moorman, 2023). Além da raridade, o caule reduzido, a beleza das longas folhagens e o crescimento lento constituem características que possibilitam o plantio da espécie em vasos, aguçando o interesse de colecionadores.…”

The true cost of the global ornamental plant trade

“…, many ornamental plants are poorly studied in the wild, making the estimation of sustainable harvest levels difficult using traditional approaches(Ticktin et al 2023). Notably, even when sustainable ornamental plant harvest is established, profits from trade can still be insufficient to provide a stable income to support sustainable businesses in the long term, as demonstrated in the case of a flagship South African fynbos harvest project (FFI 2018).Besides legal trade, illegal trade of ornamental plants for both domestic and international markets is known to be occurring on a substantial scale in multiple wild taxa, including orchids(Hinsley et al 2018), cacti(Goettsch et al 2015) and succulents(Margulies et al 2023). While the full Tecophilaea cyanocrocus, harvested for the bulb trade(Maunder et al …”