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Madagascar asks CITES to regulate rosewood and ebony

Source
Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2011-09-30

Following a logging crisis in 2009 where a number of Madagascar's remaining forests were illegally cut, the African nation has turned to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to help regulate 91 species of rosewood and ebony.

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http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0929-hance_mad_cites.html