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Red Alert: How Fraudulent Siamese Rosewood Exports from Laos and Cambodia are undermining CITES Protection

The 2013 listing of Siamese rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis spp) on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has failed to protect the species from levels of trade detrimental to its survival in the wild. The CITES listing for Siamese rosewood has largely failed because the actions of Laos and Cambodia – Parties to CITES and key range states for the species – have fundamentally undermined efforts to curb trade. Siamese rosewood now presents an important test case of CITES’s ability to function as a credible international instrument to regulate trade in threatened timber species when some Parties willfully flout their obligations.

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Field Value
Document type Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Language of document
  • English
Topics
  • Forest policy and administration
  • Forest trade and finance
  • Laws and regulations
  • Legal framework
  • Logging and timber
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Cambodia
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Thailand
Copyright Yes
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© Environmental Investigation Agency 2016 No known access and use constraints.

Version / Edition 2016
License CC-BY-3.0-IGO
Contact

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) 62/63 Upper Street, London N1 0NY, UK Tel: +44 (0) 20 7354 7960 email: ukinfo@eia-international.org www.eia-international.org

Author (corporate) Environmental Investigation Agency UK Ltd (EIA)
Publisher Environmental Investigation Agency UK Ltd (EIA)
Publication date 2016
Pagination 8
Keywords V4MF,FLEGT,CITES,ROSEWOOD,Siamese Rosewood
Date uploaded July 24, 2018, 14:26 (UTC)
Date modified October 21, 2018, 05:00 (UTC)