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Right click - select "copy post URL". Paste into your browser and the video plays (in German?).Lots of information on the species and the trade available from CITES online.This may work - https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/100300-087-A/re-schneegloeckchen-aus-georgien/https://cites.org/sites/default/files/ndf_material/WG4-CS2-P.pdf
The collectors buy the bulbs and they kill it after one or two years …after this they need new plants
Why do the bulbs die? Woronowii has thrived for decades in my garden.
I believe the vast majority of Galanthus bulbs collected in the wild end up being used for producing galantamine, used as a drug against Alzheimer's and dementia, not for gardeners...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galantamine
Possible, but unlikely, especially if the bulbs are going in large numbers to NL.