New restrictions on cocobolo?
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:32 am
I'm just about to begin a cocobolo guitar for export to the US (I live in Canada), and was doing some research on cocobolo. Until recently, cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa) has been listed in CITES Appendix III (for Panama and Guatamala populations only). However, I just read the following, which comes from the Bankok, March, 2013 CITES meeting. Cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa) is referenced in the last line. Does anyone know what the "recommendation" was that was adopted, that pertains to cocobolo, and how this will play out? Much appreciated. The link from which this quote was taken is: http://www.iisd.ca/vol21/enb2182e.html
SPECIES TRADE AND CONSERVATION: The CoP adopted the recommendations of the Committees on: great apes; Asian big cats; illegal trade in cheetahs; leopard quotas; elephants (including monitoring the illegal killing of elephants; monitoring of illegal trade in ivory and other elephant specimens; recommendations on the draft revision of Resolution Conf.10.10 (Rev.CoP15) on trade in elephant specimens; and a resolution on the African Elephant Action Plan and African Elephant Fund); rhinoceroses; Tibetan antelope; Saiga antelope; snake trade and conservation management; hawksbill turtle; sturgeons and paddlefish (including reports of the AC and the Secretariat); sharks and stingrays; humphead wrasse; sea cucumbers; regional cooperation on the management of and trade in the queen conch (Strombus gigas); Madagascar; agarwood-producing taxa (including the report of the PC and draft resolution on implementation of the Convention for agarwood-producing taxa); bigleaf mahogany; Cedrela odorata, Dalbergia retusa, D. granadillo and D. stevensonii; and the report of the Central Africa Bushmeat Working Group.