A. Species
Scientific name: Pericopsis elata
Common name(s): Afromosia
Global IUCN Red List Threat Status: Endangered
B. Location of use
Geographic location(s):
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
Country/Region:
C. Scale of assessment
Scale of assessment: National Level
Name/Details of location: Congo
D. Timescale of use
Start Year: 2014
End Year: 2014
E. Information about the use
How is the wild species sourced?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat
Type of use: Extractive
Practice of use: Logging and/or Wood Harvesting
Lethal or non-lethal: Lethal
Does this use involve take/extraction of: The whole entire organism
Purpose(s) of end use: Decorative and aesthetic and Materials and construction
Motivation of use: Basic subsistence, Income generation from trade (individual/household/community) and Largescale commercial exploitation for trade
Is this use legal or illegal?: Legal under national law
F. Information about the Users
Which stakeholder(s) does the record primarily focus on?: Local people and International private sector
G. Information about the sustainability of use
Is there evidence that the use is having an impact on the target species?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an ecological perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out: CITES Non detriment findings
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: the DRC CITES Management Authority will inform the CITES Secretariat of an annual 2015 quota for exports of P. elata equivalent to an allowed volume of sustainably felled P. elata established on the basis of the data contained in inventory management reports. Traceability monitoring procedures will be introduced to ensure that as from 1 January 2015, the CITES export permits issued by the DR Congo for P. elata will only cover volumes harvested in the forestry concessions for which management inventory reports have been submitted
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out: CITES Non detriment findings
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: implicit as highly priced export commodity felled sustainable under quota
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a social perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a human health perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an animal health/welfare perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Recommendations provided in the record to maintain or enhance the sustainability of the use of the target species
- The annual allowed volume for felling for the usable surface area of 1.073 million ha, corresponding to the six titles already subject to a management inventory, totalled 16 700 cubic meters log equivalent (m3 eq. L), and that five titles should be exploited to an MDE of 70 cm, the sixth to an MDE of 80 cm, in order to comply with Congolese law (% Re ≥ 50%). - For information, the annual allowed volume extrapolated to the usable surface area of the six other concessions involved in the management inventory process, i.e. 785 000 ha, has been calculated at 12 500 m3 eq. L to an MDE of 70 cm.
Record source
Information about the record source: formal_data_stats
Date of publication/issue/production: 2014-01-01T00:00:00+0000
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Date of record entry: 2023-09-20