Siamese Rosewood Granted CITES Endangered Listing

On Tuesday the 177 member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted unanimously to include the Siamese rosewood tree in the CITES Wild Fauna and Flora Appendix II.

This listing means Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos will be able to export closely monitored and controlled quantities of rosewood. In an effort to ensure that the products do not originate from illegal logging, exporters will need an export permit license to send the timber to other countries.

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