The current CITES genus listing of Aquilaria in force, 2023

Species+, the CITES Secretariat’s and UNEP-WCMC’s database, records it; the listing is of the whole genus.

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The record

Each field carries its evidence: open a chip for the source, the quoted words and the confidence. A field with nothing behind it says so and stays empty.

Date

2023-02-23 (day)

documented

"species_listing_name":"II","party_full_name":null,"effective_at_formatted":"23/02/2023"

CITES-1 · UNEP (2026) · read 2026-09-30

Species+ writes it 23/02/2023

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

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the house’s grouping of events for the timeline

confidence B

What happened

The CITES Appendix II listing of the genus Aquilaria in its current form comes into force.

documented

"species_listing_name":"II","party_full_name":null,"effective_at_formatted":"23/02/2023"

CITES-1 · UNEP (2026) · read 2026-09-30

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

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this record as data: /data/event/cites-aquilaria-genus-2023.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A