| Mahogany Working Group |
| Mahogany is the national tree of Belize. It has
many common names; it is called caoba or mara in Bolivia and mogno
in Brazil
Workshop on Capacity Building for Implementation of CITES Appendix-II Listing of Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), Pucallpa, Peru 18-21 May 2004 The Government of Peru hosted a workshop, co-sponsored by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the Government of the United States, to address capacity building to implement the Appendix-II listing of bigleaf mahogany. The purpose of the workshop was to outline the requirements for making CITES non-detriment findings and provide a forum for countries to share experiences in implementing the Appendix-II listing to date. It was stressed that the responsibility for making non-detriment findings lay with the exporting countries. Participants in the workshop included mahogany exporters, CITES authorities, forest management agencies and NGOs from Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, as well as key players from importing countries/regions and the CITES Secretariat. Second Meeting of the Mahogany Working Group, Belem, Brazil, 6-8 October 2003
First Meeting of the Mahogany Working Group, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 3-5 October 2001 At COP11, Decision 11.4 established the first formal Mahogany Working Group (MWG). The MWG included range countries, principal importing countries, a Plants Committee representative, and experts on the species. It was charged to: (a) review the effectiveness of current and potential Appendix-III listings; (b) analyze legal and illegal trade; (c) review studies of the status of the species; (d) encourage the exchange of implementation information; (e) study appropriate measures to widen the geographic scope of Appendix-III listings; and (f) assess and analyze the results of items (a)-(e) and report back to COP12. The following are some of the documents considered at the first meeting of the MWG and the MWG’s report to COP12:
Working Group on Mahogany, Brasilia, Brazil, 3-5 June 1998 When the proposal to list bigleaf mahogany in CITES Appendix II was rejected at COP10 in 1997, Brazil, Bolivia, and the United States agreed to form a working group to examine the status, management, and international cooperation and trade in this species. The working group was attended by Amazon Cooperation Treaty countries, Panama, several importing countries, and non-governmental organizations. |
When
bigleaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) was included in Appendix
II at COP12, the Parties agreed to continue the work of the MWG, which
was first established at COP11 to encourage regional and international
cooperation and sharing of information to ensure sustainable management
of this species. The MWG was charged with discussing the capacities needed
to implement the Appendix-II listing, related to sustainable harvest
and scientifically based non-detriment findings, and reviewing the recommendations
from the first MWG. The following are some of the documents considered
at the second meeting of the MWG: