https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithops#Conservation_status
But they were so cute, looking like weird butt-cheeks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lithops_salicola.jpg
So I picked some up at a local flower shop when I saw them.
they seemed to be selling them legally.
I think we wouldn't do anything with exotic flora and fauna unless smuggling had happened at some time in the past, then it got grandfathered in.
on the other hand, dandilions, eucalyptus, mongooses (mongees?)
We love moving plants and animals around if they're useful or pretty. Conservation efforts that try to stop this for certain species are a relatively recent thing
I think realistically businesses in other parts of the world have no incentive to fully enforce ethical provenance across the entire supply chain for these kinds of products, and in most cases, fully lack the capability either. You'd have to run some kind of ATF-kinda thing in a third world country where official rule of law is already dicey or absent.
Of course, the destination countries may have an issue with importing them.