Project Meliaceae
Policy
This web site is a continually evolving and ongoing project. Its
purpose is to improve communication among all groups and individuals
that are involved with these species. We need your help! If you have a
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Why be Concerned About Threatened Species?
Includes comments on three species of Swietenia
Metafore, Portland, OR
http://www.certifiedwood.org/education-modules/beyond-certification/printable/threatened-species.htm
Link dead August 8 2004
What NOT to buy - choices for the future
Swietenia macrophylla on list
Source: Rainforest Action Network
http://www.ran.org/ran_campaigns/old_growth/forestworld.html
Link verified 8 August 2004
Novos rumos para a extração de mogno no Brasil
(Portuguese)
Notícia Socioambientais
10 June 2003
http://www.socioambiental.org/website/noticias/noticia.asp?File=Brasil\2003-06-10-17-37.html
Link dead 8 August 2004
Brasil traza nuevos rumbos para la extracción de caoba
13 junio 2003
Agência de Informação Frei Tito para a
América Latina
Spanish
http://www.adital.org.br/asp2/noticia.asp?noticia=7531&idioma=es
Portuguese
http://www.adital.org.br/asp2/noticia.asp?noticia=7531&idioma=pt
Links verified 8 August 2004
Presidential decree concerning the use of Swietenia macrophylla
in Brazil (Portuguese)
5 June 2003
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/decreto/2003/D4722.htm
Link verified 8 August 2004
Decreto Nº 4.722, de 5 de Junho de 2003
Estabelece critérios para exploração da
espécie Swietenia macrophylla King (mogno), e dá outras
providências.
Notadez
http://www.notadez.com.br/urgente/d4722.htm
Link verified 8 August 2004
06jun03: Decreto 4.722
Estabelece critérios para exploração da
espécie Swietenia macrophylla King (mogno), e dá outras
providências
Source: Diário Oficial da União (Brasil)
http://www.natlaw.com/brazil/topical/en/dcbren/dcbren65.htm
Link verified 20 October 2003
Password required 8 August 2004
CITES and the tropical timber trade
Tropical Forest Foundation
Bulletin 3
Revised February 2003
http://www.tropicalforestfoundation.org/cites.html
Link verified 8 August 2004
All three species of mahogany now on CITES Appendix II
Source: International Wood Products Association
1 January 2003
http://www.iwpawood.org/cites.html
Link dead 8 August 2004
Highlights 2002 IUCN plan for the conservation of bigleaf mahogany Swietenia
macrophylla
http://www.iucn.org/ourwork/programme/pa2002/english/governance/highlights.htm
In French
http://www.iucn.org/ourwork/programme/pa2002/francais/governance/reflets.htm
In Spanish
http://www.iucn.org/ourwork/programme/pa2002/espanol/governance/destacados.htm
Links verified 8 August 2004
L'acajou d’Amérique mieux protégé
19 décembre 2002
bois-foret.info
Concerns CITES listing of Swietenia macrophylla
http://www.bois-foret.info/bfi2/pge_info_aff.asp?art=1730
Link verified 8 August 2004
CITES voted on November 13, 2002, to place Swietenia macrophylla
in the list of threatened species, restricting its international trade.
Source: Julio Cesar Centeno
22 November 2002
http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/elan/2002/msg00617.html
Link verified 8 August 2004
Documents for CITES Appendix II listing of Swietenia macrophylla
at the Twelfth Conference
of the Parties to CITES in November 2002
Defenders of Wildlife
http://www.defenders.org/cites/mahogany.html
Link verified 8 August 2004
http://www.defenders.org/cites/mahoganyb.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
Public Hearing Statement to US Fish and Wildlife
http://www.defenders.org/cites/mahogany.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
CITES thinks again
"Big-leafed mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) is again up for
discussion for listing......
Source: hardwoodmarkets.com
November 2002
http://www.hardwoodmarkets.com/2002Nov/SAmericamahoganycites.htm
Link verified 8 August 2004
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) E-Bulletin - November 2002
Outcomes from CITES Conference of Parties (COP 12) Swietenia
macrophylla
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/news/ebulletin2002/ebulletinnov02.html#cop12
Link verified 8 August 2004
Contrabando de Caoba (el incumplimiento español del acuerdo de
CITES)
Greenpeace
Noviembre 2002
http://www.greenpeace.es/gp2/informes/caoba.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
Comments from Brazil on the proposed CITES Appendix II listing of Swietenia
macrophylla for
the Twelfth Conference of the Parties to CITES
in November 2002
http://www.cites.org/common/cop/12/ESF12i-25.PDF
Link verified 8 August 2004
Prise de Position du WWF
12 ème session de la Conférence des Parties à la
CITES
Santiago, 3-15 novembre 2002
L’Acajou d’Amérique
Prop. 50
http://www.panda.org/downloads/species/Mahogany_french.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
Inclusion of neotropical populations of Big-leaf Mahogany Swietenia
macrophylla in Appendix II, including logs, sawn timber, veneer and
plywood. Proponents: Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Ref. CoP 12 Prop. 50
The IUCN/TRAFFIC Analyses of Proposals to Amend the CITES Appendices
Prepared for the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP12)
Santiago, Chile 3-15 November 2002
http://www.iucn.org/webfiles/doc/SSC/CoP12/Analyses/1250.pdf
or
http://greenpeace.terra.com.br/cites/pdf/IUCN_mahogany_Nicaragua_proposal.pdf
Links verified 8 August 2004
Species Survival Network support adoption of proposal 12.50 from
Nicaragua to list Swietenia macrophylla in CITES Appendix II
http://www.speciessurvivalnetwork.org/factsheets/SSN%20Mahogany%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
CITES 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties 3-15 November 2002
Commitee II meeting
Includes comments on Swietenia macrophylla
http://www.felidae.org/CITES12/ComII_12.PDF
Link verified 8 August 2004
Decisions of the Conference of the Parties to CITES in effect after the
11th meeting
November 2002
http://www.erwda.gov.ae/cites/docs/CITES%20Decisions.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
Comments on CITES Appendix II listing of Swietenia macrophylla
Timber Trade Federation
16 October 2002
http://www.greenpeace.org.br/cites/pdf/letter-timber_trade_federation.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
Imazon supports increased control over international trade of mahogany:
the species’ proposed listing on CITES Appendix II
Amazon Institute of People and the Environment
Belém, Pará, Brazil
15 October 2002
http://a520.g.akamai.net/7/520/1534/release1.0/www.greenpeace.org/multimedia/download/1/46743/0/cites_ingles.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
Portuguese version of the above
Imazon apóia maior controle do comércio
internacional do mogno: a listagem da espécie no Apêndice
II da CITES.
15 de outubro de 2002
Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (IMAZON)
http://www.greenpeace.com.br/cites/pdf/Imazon_cites.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
Timber and
the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES,
Santiago, Chile 2002
IUCN and TRAFFIC briefing document
October 2002
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/citescop12/TimberCOP12EN.pdf
http://www.traffic.org/cop12/timber_conf.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
Decreto de Regulación del Régiment
de Retención en la Fuente a la Explotación de Maderas
Presidente de Nicaragua
Decreto No. 40 2002
Discusses Swietenia macrophylla and Cedrela odorata
http://www.dgi.gob.ni/documentacion/docs/1Decreto%20de%20Regulaci%C3%B3n%20del%20Regim%C3%A9n%20de%20Retenci%C3%B3n%20en%20la%20Fuente%20%20a%20la%20Explotaci%C3%B3n%20de%20Maderas.doc
Link verified 8 August 2004
Populations of Swietenia macrophylla and Cedrela odorata
in Peru and Colombia added to CITES Appendix III
August 26, 2002
Source: Environment Canada
http://www.cites.ec.gc.ca/eng/sct0/neo01_e.cfm
Link verified 8 August 2004
Exportação de mogno é mogno suspensa
(Portuguese)
Jornal do Tribunal Regional Federal
Julho/Agosto 2002
http://www.trf4.gov.br/trf4/noticias/jornal_imgs/jornal34.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
EU queries legality of Amazonian mahogany imports
2 April 2002
Planet Ark
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/15273/story.htm
Link verified 8 August 2004
EUROPA VAI PARAR DE COMPRAR MOGNO BRASILEIRO
27 de março de 2002
Resolución Jefatural Nº 094-2002-INRENA
Comisión Ad hoc Concesiones Forestales Zafra 2002
Lima, Peru
22 de Marzo 2002
Included comments on harvest in concessions of Swietenia macrophylla
http://www.inrena.gob.pe/cahcf0426.html
Link verified 8 August 2004
Explanation of attempts to list Swietenia macrophylla
with CITES - in the layman's terms
2002
Premier Organics
http://www.premierorganics.org/amazon/mahogany.cfm
Link dead 8 August 2004
Mahogany Swietenia macrophylla
Endangered Species Information Center
2002 WWF-Brasil
http://www.wwf.org.br/english/informa/especie.asp?lista=1&item=9
Link verified 8 August 2004
Reglamento (CE)N 2476/2001 de la Comisión
de 17 de diciembre de 2001 (Spanish)
relativo a la protección de especies de la fauna
y flora silvestres mediante el control de su comercio
Modifications for Cedrela odorata and Swietenia macrophylla
are included
http://www.mma.es/normativa/jurisp/doce/20011218_L334_03.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
Peru adds Cedrela odorata to CITES Appendix III
Colombia requests that Colombian Cedrela
odorata and Swietenia macrophylla be added to CITES
Appendix III
Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, International Affairs
November 2001
http://international.fws.gov/cites/update82.html
Link dead 8 August 2004
Instrução Normativa n°17/01 - Suspende o transporte,
o beneficiamento, a comercialização de mogno (Swietenia
macrophylla), por tempo indeterminado; Suspende a concessão de
autorizações de planos de exploração e de
autorizações para desmatamento bem como as já
emitidas
pelo IBAMA em área que contenha o mogno, e a
utilização
das Autorizações de Transporte de Produto Florestal -
ATPF
em poder das indústrias madeireiras e dos comerciantes de
madeiras.
19 de Outubro de 2001
Leis Florestais Federais - Ministério do Meio Ambiente
http://www.amazonia.org.br/documentos/pt/manejo/legislacao/in/Instrucao_Normativa17de01.doc
http://www.manejoflorestal.org/index3.cfm?cat_id=67&subcat_id=224
Links verified 8 August 2004
CITES Reglamento (CE) 1579/2001 Legislación comunitaria de la
Comisión, de 1 de agosto de 2001, que modifica el Reglamento
(CE) n° 338/97 del Consejo relativo a la protección de
especímenes de la fauna y flora silvestres mediante el control
de su comercio.
Includes changes for Swietenia macrophylla and Cedrela
odorata
Centro de Acuicultura Experimental (C.A.E.)
http://www.mediterranea.org/cae/reglamento_1579_01_cites.htm
Link verified 8 August 2004
Ministro del Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales (MARN)
Venezuela
2001
Dirección de Administración del Recurso Forestal
(incluyendo comentario sobre Swietenia macrophylla)
http://www.marnr.gov.ve/direcciones/forestal/diradmi/diradmi.htm
Link verified 8 August 2004
Dirección del Manejo del Recurso Forestal
http://www.marnr.gov.ve/direcciones/forestal/dirmanejo/dirmanejo.htm
Link verified 8 August 2004
Dirección del Planificación del Recurso Forestal
http://www.marnr.gov.ve/direcciones/forestal/dirplani/dirplani.htm
Link verified 8 August 2004
Traffic examines the U. S. Mahogany Market
World Wildlife Fund
November 2000
http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/attachments/traffic_nov_dec00.pdf
Link dead 8 August 2004
Decreto N.º 3.559, de 14 de Agosto de 2000
Suspende a exploração da espécie mogno (Swietenia
macrophylla King), na Região Amazônica, pelo
período
de dois anos, e dá outras providências
Brasília, Brazil
http://servidor.ipaam.br/legislacao/FEDERAL/PROTEÇÃO%20AO%20MEIO%20AMBIENTE/decreto%20n.º%203.559,%20de%2014.08.00%20(suspende%20a%20exploração%20da%20espécie%20mogno%20(swietenia%20macrophylla%20king),%20na%20região%20amazônica,%20pelo%20período%20de%20dois%20anos).doc
Link verified 8 August 2004
Mahogany Swietenia macrophylla
Working towards CITES listing
Traffic Dispatches
No. 14 June 2000
http://www.traffic.org/dispatches/archives/june2000/samerica5.html
Link verified 8 August 2004
Decreto de urgencia
Autorizan al inrena atorgar permisos de exportación de madera
aserrada de caoba y cedro, en casos de volumenes comprometidos para
exportacion con anterioridad a la ley forestal y de fauna silvestre
10 May 2000
Lima, Perú
http://www.asesor.com.pe/proapa/leyes/193647.htm
Posted 9 August 2004
Mahogany Victory at CITES
3 May 2000
http://forests.org/archive/general/maviccit.htm
Link verified 8 August 2004
Species dependent on ancient and frontier forest
Greenpeace: press background
October 1999
Includes comments on Swietenia macrophylla
http://archive.greenpeace.org/forests/resources/TNCendangered.pdf
Link verified 8 August 2004
Instrução Normativa n°03/99 - estabelece para o
primeiro semestre de 1999 o contingente total de
exportação de madeira da espécie florestal MOGNO (Swietenia
macrophylla) 27 de Januerio de 1999
Leis Florestais Federais - Ministério do Meio Ambiente
http://www.amazonia.org.br/documentos/pt/manejo/legislacao/in/Instrucao_Normativa3de99.doc
Link verified 8 August 2004
http://www.manejoflorestal.org/index3.cfm?cat_id=67&subcat_id=224
Link verified 8 August 2004
Decreto n° 2.687/98 - Suspende a exploração da
espécie mogno (Swietenia Macrophylla King) na Região
Amazônica, pelo período de dois anos, e dá outras
providências. 27 de julho de 1998
Leis Florestais Federais - Ministério do Meio Ambiente
http://www.amazonia.org.br/documentos/pt/manejo/legislacao/decretos/Decreto_n2687de98.doc
Link verified 8 August 2004
http://www.manejoflorestal.org/index3.cfm?cat_id=67&subcat_id=224
Link verified 8 August 2004
Amendment to Appendix III Listing of Bigleaf Mahogany Under the
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora:
Inclusion of Bolivian Populations 5 May
1998
Source: [Federal Register: May 14,
1998 (Volume 63, Number 93)]
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/1998/May/Day-14/e12803.htm
Link verified 8 August 2004
Projetos Selecionados Não Estaduais
01/98
Fondo Estatal de Ciéncia y Tecnologia
Goberno do Para, Brasil
Includes projects with Swietenia macrophylla
http://www.sectam.pa.gov.br/funtec/f_p_ne98.htm?choice=funtec.htm
Link verified 8 August 2004
Briefing on Mahogany
Friends of the Earth
August 1996
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/timber_mahogany.html
Link verified 8 August 2004
Kew Scientist
April 1995
Mahogany fails CITES listing
Attempted listing for Swietenia macrophylla, Khaya and Entandrophragma
spp.
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/kewscientist/ks_apr95/ks.html
Link verified 8 August 2004
Mahoganies: International Protection?
20 October 1994
Source: Congressional Research Service
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/Forests/for-7.cfm?&CFID=8560276&CFTOKEN=70469789
Link verified 8 August 2004