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Key actions to protect the Peruvian Amazon by the Natural Resources Defense Council and its partners include: |
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June 6, 2006
- Peruvian indigenous groups and NRDC sue US
Government Agencies and top importers to halt imports of contraband
mahogany
Press
release
January 2006 - CENTERPIECE Story of the issue of EcoAmericas highlights "Peruvian forestry control efforts still no match for illegal mahogany trade" in an article entitled "Peruvian mahogany stands under attack" (PDF)
December 10, 2004
– INRENA issues press release regarding new
Forestry Information System for CITES enforcement (JPG
in Spanish)
October 23, 2005 – Natural Resource Defense Council responds to the European Commission request for further information and urges the European Scientific Review Group to recommend a moratorium on imports of Peruvian mahogany until Peru demonstrates compliance with CITES. September 29, 2005 – Defenders of Wildlife write to both the European Commission Scientific Working Group and U.S. Fish & Wildlife to alert them that Peru as increased its export quota for Convention-covered specimens for 2005 through little more than an accounting trick that ignores the very legal distinctions between the categories December 1, 2004 - NRDC and Defenders of Wildlife write to European Commission detailing concerns about the continued importation of mahogany from Peru in violation of CITES (PDF) September 22, 2004 - U.S. Fish & Wildlife letter sidesteps concerns that imports of mahogany from Peru continue to violate CITES. (PDF) September 10, 2004 - Natural Resources Defense Council urge U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to confiscate illegal mahogany shipments in compliance with the Endangered Species Act (PDF) June 28, 2004 - Natural Resources Defense Council and Defenders of Wildlife report CITES violations on imports of Peruvian big-leaf mahogany to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (PDF) March 15, 2004 - WWF-Perú issues public statement on the fight against illegal logging (JPG) December 17, 2003 - NRDC, major environmental groups ask U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for greater scrutiny of CITES shipments (letter) November 15, 2003 - CITES trade controls enter into force for big-leaf mahogany (link) (press release on PeruForests) September 22, 2003 - FENAMAD responds to attacks on indigenous peoples (press release in Spanish) |
