"Chinese healer accused... stocked... products made from... rare orchids... Cai Li Zhao... ran a "clinic" in central London for six years...
The defendant is charged with offering for sale specimens of a controlled species... Products derived from rare orchids... she claimed were for personal use. ... counts refer to... species which are not immediately under threat but their trade is carefully regulated... rhizome gastrodiae orchid. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was incorporated the UK's Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulations in 1997... 169 countries including China have joined." article URL : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/15/nbear115.xml ********** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
