Western groups have accused China needs global mahogany brink of extinction

in recent years, "Chinese demand" led to a number of rare species reduce reported frequently seen in the Western media. The substandard media of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) quoted the latest survey of some western research institutions in the 21st exaggeration to call the brink of extinction due to China's demand for mahogany years of sustained growth, global mahogany.
　　The BBC said, the different mahogany grown in Southeast Asia, India, the Americas, Brazil and Africa, Madagascar, these countries have banned the felling of mahogany, are permitted only in the construction of dams and other large-scale projects only legally harvested. However, the pursuit of international consumers of mahogany makes rampant illegal logging activities, Southeast Asia mahogany brink of extinction.
　　Reports, the BBC and the Associated Press so stressed, mahogany consumer groups "mainly to Chinese consumers. BBC quoted data mahogany of the world in recent years 98% of the final sales to China, and the remaining 2% of the flow to the United States and the European Union countries. Associated Press, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the illegal timber trade expert Hewitt was quoted as saying, according to official records obtained in 2011 imported $ 600 million worth of mahogany. "The figure itself shows most of China's imported mahogany illegal felling proceeds.

Further, the Associated Press said, jungle area in the remote southwest of the Cambodian province of Koh Kong, the majority of villagers living on less than $ 2 a day, but once you find to Shanghao mahogany, price of 2700 U.S. dollars per cubic meter sold to middlemen. Once these mahogany after Vietnam to reach the hands of the Chinese furniture manufacturers, prices will soar up to $ 320,000, the price of a set of sofas and chairs.
　　However, foreign media also acknowledged that not all mahogany felling mahogany with China, not only the Chinese people. The BBC said that the addition to the production of Chinese furniture, mahogany can be used to produce high-end American guitars and Billiard Cues. In 2009 and 2011, the U.S. authorities have seized $ 500,000 in Tennessee a guitar ebony and mahogany.
　　Southeast Asia and South Asia, Yunnan Province, researcher Zhu Zhenming 21, 2009, the "Global Times" reporter, said that, in order to protect the ecological environment, Burma, Cambodia, Laos and other Southeast Asian countries are timber exports are banned, but allows exports of wood products. The has some irreplaceable features, the price of wood products these years more speculation higher especially mahogany, not only the Chinese people like people in many countries of the world are like. China's coastal areas such as Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, mahogany does have a traditional preference for demand for larger, this leads to a certain extent stimulate the felling of mahogany in the Southeast Asian countries. In this regard, some of China's government departments and environmental organizations should join hands to strengthen environmental education and promotion of public and moderate cooling to redwood hot "to encourage people to choose the mahogany alternatives, to reduce the environmental pressures brought about by the consumption of mahogany.