Delegates at #CITESCoP20 agreed to retain #brazilwood in Appendix II with a zero quota for wild-harvested specimens traded for commercial purposes—while still allowing non-commercial transport of musical instruments (to the relief of violinists)

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The revision to Annotation 10 includes a zero quota for wild-harvested specimens of #brazilwood traded for commercial purposes, and per an observer, provides "the legal certainty needed for string players across all genres to share their music across the globe.” #CITESCoP20 @trafficintl.bsky.social

At #CITESCoP20, Committee I agreed to retain #brazilwood in Appendix II with an amendment to Annotation 10 that enables the non-commercial transport of finished musical instruments.

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Photo: San Domenico Violins, Wikimedia Commons

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The cover image of the November issue of the American Journal of Botany showing a secretory cavity in a freehand-cut section of a leaf of Myrcianthes pungens (O. Berg) D. Legrand (Myrtaceae) reveals the suberized walls of the gland sheath cells (blue autofluorescence) and the inner epithelial cell layer (green autofluorescence). (Image credit: José Fernando Richit)

Check out these highlights from the latest #AJB!

Featuring new research on #bryophytes, #Brazilwood & #mayapples:
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