A. Species
Scientific name: Pericopsis elata
Common name(s): afrormosia, assamela
Global IUCN Red List Threat Status: Endangered
B. Location of use
Geographic location(s):
- Cameroon
Country/Region:
C. Scale of assessment
Scale of assessment: Sub-national / Sub-region / Sub-State
Name/Details of location: Bertoua (The East province of Cameroon)
D. Timescale of use
Start Year: 2001
End Year: 2008
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, Non-local Internal, Non-local External and National / local 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?: No, sustainability not determined
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 restoration and alleviation measures adopted by the Cameroon government for the development and implementation of management plans, are relevant to ensure a fair sustainable logging on Pericopsis elata. The method used to calculate the forest possibility and the managed minimum exploitable diameter can be advised for a Non-Detriment Findings protocol for CITES plant species for a specific country or specific production forest. Analyses made in this document do not authorize to consider Pericopsis elata found in Cameroon as a threatened plant species, in accordance with the actual availability and the level of exploitation. But this must be considered with some reserves, due to the lack of scientific updated census and data.
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: No, sustainability not determined
Details of assessment carried out: CITES Non detriment findings
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: Cameroon is struggling economically and afrormorsia plantations are economically not viable; due to economic crisis no new forestry personal has been hired and enforcement experiences issues due to lack of man power
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
For a complete Non-detriment Findings report on Pericopsis elata, I recommend (1) to limit the elaboration of NDF reports on production forests, (2) to gather WG 1 – CASE STUDY 2 – p. 49 and analyse management and logging inventories data of all production forests were Pericopsis is logged (more than 30 management plans), and determines the suitable MED/ADM, (3) conducting target inventories in forest concessions to confirm or reject results of inventories made by the forest concessionaires, (4) conducting target inventories including individuals with diameter less than 20 cm in production forests, community forests, communal forests, and protected areas and update the real density and the map of Pericopsis in Cameroon, (5) gathering relevant data on processing in different sawmills to define a suitable and adaptive processing rate of Pericopsis: this information will help the CITES management authority to allocate suitable quotas for Pericopsis to different companies, (6) gathering relevant data on illegal logging and domestic trade, (7) undertaking phonological studies and define the production and the MED of Assamela trees, (8) conducting complementary studies on the sylviculture in both forest management units and plantation forests and establish a seed bank (9) developing and implementing the management plans of Pericopsis’s plantations, (10) build capacity of the CITES scientific officers .
Record source
Information about the record source: formal_data_stats
Date of publication/issue/production: 2008-01-01T00:00:00+0000
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Date of record entry: 2023-09-27