Aquilaria in the CITES appendices, 2004

The current genus listing is a later event on record (in force 23 February 2023).

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Date

2004 (year)

documented

In 2004, a list of all Aquilaria species was included in supplementary materials of the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) treaty [6].

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confidence A

Label

documented (a source states it)

house label

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

one of the four labels of the Reconstruction Lab (A §6.4), chosen from what the cited source itself says

confidence B

Kind

trade

house classification

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the house’s grouping of events for the timeline

confidence B

What happened

All Aquilaria species, the agarwood trees, are listed under CITES.

documented

In 2004, a list of all Aquilaria species was included in supplementary materials of the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) treaty [6].

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confidence A

Place

not on record

not on record

no place on record for this event

Materials

• agarwood oil (oud oil)

Botanicals

• Aquilaria malaccensis Lam.

Sources

1. CITES-1 · UNEP (2026). Aquilaria malaccensis. The Species+ Website. Nairobi, Kenya. Compiled by UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK. Available at: www.speciesplus.net (taxon concept 24742; the CITES and EU listings). Accessed 2026-09-30. speciesplus.net/species#/taxon_concepts/24742/le… · read 2026-09-30 · Species+ terms (citation required; reuse restricted): short fields quoted, the JSON is not filed
2. GC-13 · Baig A, Akram A, Lin MK. Agarwood in the Modern Era: Integrating Biotechnology and Pharmacology for Sustainable Use. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025;26(17):8468. DOI 10.3390/ijms26178468. PMID 40943390. PMCID PMC12428735. doi.org/10.3390/ijms26178468 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0 (open access, MDPI, as the article states); short quotes only, the text is not filed

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