Mahogany and CITES: Moving beyond the veneer of legality

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Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-90

  Blundell, Arthur G ^a,b,c   Rodan, Bruce D ^a,d  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c USAID ^*  (United States)

^d US Environment Protection Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Illegal trade; Logging; Mahogany; Swietenia macrophylla; Trade statistics; Tropical timber species

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; TIMBER; TRADE;

LATIN AMERICA;

MELIACEAE; SWIETENIA; SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA;

EID: 0344706078     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605303000164     Document Type: Article

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