After putting up a fight at CITES, will India be able to provide an alternative trade regime to rosewood artisans of the country?
The agreement, aimed at protecting the species, was made at the 17th Conference of Parties (cop 17) to cites (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) held at Johannesburg during September-October 2016. Several African and Latin American countries had raised concerns over a “considerable rise in interest in the wood of Dalbergia on international markets, primarily in China”. This is fuelling an illegal trade, which is decimating Dalbergia populations throughout its range, they had said. Although, cites focuses on the protection of individual species, cop 17 put the entire genus under Appendix II, which regulates trade in species. Though most of the 182 member countries agreed to the proposal, India for the first time has entered a reservation concerning the inclusion of all rosewood in Appendix II.
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