TO BUY or not to buy? That’s the question US consumers may want to ask themselves as it emerged that illegal exports of endangered hardwoods from Peru hit the shelves in the US.
Last week Wikileaks released the text of sent in 2006 by the then US ambassador to Peru. It transpires that the Peruvian government knew that an estimated 70 to 90 per cent of the mahogany Peru exported in 2005 came from illegal sources. Most of the wood was destined for the US and exported with the aid of falsified documents and bribery.
Illegal logging remains…
