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Peru given six months to clean up mahogany trade

13 March, 2010 - 20:09

Peru has been given 6 months to address management issues in its mahogany trade or face an export ban Click photo to enlarge © TRAFFIC   Doha, Qatar, 13 March 2010 – In a CITES meeting on Friday, Peru was given a six month ultimatum to address critical issues over the illegal mahogany trade.

The CITES Standing Committee – the body that governs CITES between conference of the parties meetings – took the decision to take this step following Peru’s repeated failure to manage effectively illegal logging and trade in the valuable timber.

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