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CORRESPONDENCE 30 January 2019 Brand Madagascar’s rosewood and ebony as endangered By Lucienne Wilmé0 & Patrick O. Waeber1 Lucienne Wilmé World Resources Institute, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
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Patrick O. Waeber Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Twitter Facebook Email Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Some 80% of Madagascar’s unique biodiversity depends on forest ecosystems, yet deforestation on the island continues
unchecked. Politicians have influenced trading in precious timber since the 1980s, with the sourcing of protected Malagasy rosewood peaking during the country’s 2009–13 political crisis. As
we approach the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) COP18 summit in Sri Lanka in May, we urge Madagascar’s new president, Andry Rajoelina,
to avoid measures that could put the last 15% of the country’s original natural forests at risk.
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Nature 565, 567 (2019)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00323-6
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