A. Species
Scientific name: Pterocarpus santalinus
Common name(s): red sanders, red sandalwood
Global IUCN Red List Threat Status: Endangered
B. Location of use
Geographic location(s):
- India
Country/Region:
C. Scale of assessment
Scale of assessment: National Level
Name/Details of location: India/ Andrah Pradesh
D. Timescale of use
Start Year: 1995
End Year: 2010
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: Food and feed, Medicine and hygiene, Energy, Ceremony, religious, and ritual expression, Decorative and aesthetic and Materials and construction
Motivation of use: Basic subsistence, Income generation from trade (individual/household/community), Largescale commercial exploitation for trade and Traditional/Cultural/Spiritual
Is this use legal or illegal?: Illegal under national law
F. Information about the Users
Which stakeholder(s) does the record primarily focus on?: Local people, Non-local Internal, National / local government, National / local private sector 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 unsustainable
Details of assessment carried out: CITES Non detriment findings
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: existing population highly skewed towards thinner trees ("lower girth class" <70cm) where trees need ca 80-100 years to reach higher girth classes. Sanders trees are also highly vulnerable to illegal logging, grazing and intentionally-set fires
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: not recorded
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
* Any trade of wild red sanders wood should be discouraged; in future only trade from plantation wood should be permitted * Revoke CITES export quota for wild harvested wood as this is not legally harvested (although may have been seized in government ops) * Illegal harvest and trade need to be stopped immediately and import-countries need to control CITES permits better * In situ and ex-situ conservation measures needed to conserve species and counteract habitat destruction and soil-erosion
Record source
Information about the record source: formal_data_stats
Date of publication/issue/production: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+0000
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Date of record entry: 2023-09-26