{"id":52,"date":"2018-01-10T13:58:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T18:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2025-02-17T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:31:24","slug":"timber","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/timber\/","title":{"rendered":"Timber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four species of cacti (<em>Carnegiea gigantea, Cylindropuntia cholla, C. fulgida and C. imbricata<\/em>) and six tree species were originally selected for this project: three species of <em>Dalbergia <\/em>(<em>D. granadillo<\/em>, <em>D. retusa <\/em>and <em>D.<\/em> <em>stevensonii<\/em>) and three species of <em>Swietenia <\/em>(<em>S. humilis<\/em>, <em>S.<\/em> <em>macrophylla <\/em>and <em>S. mahagoni<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>All the priority cactus species occur in Mexico, as do the tree species <em>D. granadillo, D. stevensonii, S. humilis <\/em>and<em> S. macrophylla. Dalbergia retusa<\/em> is found in Mexico, but is believed to be an introduced species. <em>Carnegiea gigantea, C. fulgida, C. imbricata <\/em>and<em> S. mahagoni<\/em> are native to the United States. None of the priority timber species occurs in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed S<em>. mahagoni<\/em> as Endangered and <em>D.<\/em>\u00a0<em>retusa, S. humilis <\/em>and<em> S. macrophylla<\/em> as Vulnerable. However, the status of these species has not been updated since 1998. Whether the IUCN rankings reflect their current conservation status is not clear. <em>Dalbergia granadillo<\/em> and <em>D. stevensonii<\/em> have not been assessed by the IUCN, and each of the cactus species has been assessed as Least Concern.<\/p>\n<p>In Mexico, <em>C. gigantea<\/em> is considered Threatened and <em>D. granadillo<\/em> is Endangered. In the United States, harvest of <em>C. gigantea<\/em> on National Park Service lands is illegal and the species is protected in the state of Arizona. <em>Swietenia mahagoni<\/em> is protected in the State of Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four species of cacti (Carnegiea gigantea, Cylindropuntia cholla, C. fulgida and C. imbricata) and six tree species were originally selected for this project: three species of Dalbergia (D. granadillo, D. retusa and D. stevensonii) and three species of Swietenia (S. humilis, S. macrophylla and S. mahagoni). All the priority cactus species occur in Mexico, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-species.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/cites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}