The wildlife trade treaty CITES logged 1.3 million coral exports worldwide.
A quarter of US coral imports were wild-caught from reefs in Indonesia already bleaching.
Farmed and poached coral look identical, so treaty paperwork is the only difference traffickers can forge.
Experts propose dyeing farmed coral, though no treaty member has adopted the marking rule.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 70+ reports worldwide
- Mongabay
- foregrounds dyeing farm-raised coral as forensic anti-trafficking enforcement tool, cites ArtReef Rocks proof-of-concept
Sources: Mongabay